The ancient constitution and the feudal law : a study of English historical thought in the seventeenth century :a reissue with a retrospect / J.G.A. Pocock.
"Professor Pocock's subject is how the seventeenth century looked at its own past. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one of the most important modes of studying the past was the study of the law - the historical outlook which arose in each nation was in part the product of its la...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1987.
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| Summary: | "Professor Pocock's subject is how the seventeenth century looked at its own past. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one of the most important modes of studying the past was the study of the law - the historical outlook which arose in each nation was in part the product of its law, and therefore, in turn of its history. In clarifying the relation of the historical outlook of seventeenth-century Englishmen to the study of law, and pointing out its political implication, Pocock shows how history's ground was laid for a more philosophical approach in the eighteenth century."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 402 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521303524 9780521303521 052131643X 9780521316439 |