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Politics, Religion and Ideas in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Mark Goldie / eds. Justin Champion, John Coffey, Tim J G Harris, John Marshall

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15 May 2020

Mark Goldie has been one of the most influential interrogators of England in the later 17th and early 18th centuries.

And so began the Irish Nation: Nationality, Nationalism and National Consciousness in Pre-Modern Ireland /

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2 Jun 2016

The commemorations for the 100th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising in the Republic of Ireland have thrown the issue of nationalism and independence into sharp relief once again.

Varieties of Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century English Radicalism in Context / Ariel Hessayon, David Finnegan

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1 Nov 2011

The scholarship on the intellectual, religious and political history of early modern England presents a large use of terms such as ‘orthodox’, ‘deist’, ‘atheist’, ‘radical’, and their respective ‘isms’.

Why We Need a History of Trust / Niklas Luhmann

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1 Jul 2002

Confucius once remarked that rulers need three resources: weapons, food and trust. The ruler who cannot have all three should give up weapons first, then food, but should hold on to trust at all costs: 'without trust we cannot stand'.(1) Machiavelli disagreed.

Ernest Gellner / Alan Macfarlane

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1 Sep 1996

Ernest Gellner, who died on 5 November 1995, was one of the great polymaths of the century. Many of his twenty books were concerned with philosophy, sociology and anthropology. Yet at the core of his work was an historical question.