The sleeping sovereign : the invention of modern democracy / Richard Tuck.
The sleeping sovereign : the invention of modern democracy / Richard Tuck.
The sleeping sovereign : the invention of modern democracy / Richard Tuck.
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Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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G 2018/0117
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Language
English
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Physical content
xiii, 295 pages ; 22 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Jean Bodin -- Grotius, Hobbes and Pufendorf -- The eighteenth century -- America.
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Publisher
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2015.
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Summary
"Richard Tuck traces the history of the distinction between sovereignty and government and its relevance to the development of democratic thought. Tuck shows that this was a central issue in the political debates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and provides a new interpretation of the political thought of Bodin, Hobbes and Rousseau. In...
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The sleeping sovereign : the invention of modern democracy / Richard Tuck.
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The Seeley lectures
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2018/0117
Record Identifier
74VKVGA603gM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVGA603gM
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ISBN
110713014X (hardback)
9781107130142 (hardback)
DDC
321.8
MMS ID
991024154600502626
