Economy, Polity, and Society British Intellectual History 1750}}}1950 [Hardcover]

Two volumes containing essays by leading scholars in modern British intellectual history.Modern British intellectual history has been a particularly flourishing field of enquiry in recent years. These two integrated volumes contain new essays by almost all of its leading proponents, and the essays range chronologically from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century, covering a wide range of topics and thinkers. All are written in a clear, readable style that will make them accessible to scholars and students across a number of neighbouring disciplines, and taken together the two volumes comprise a major overview of the intellectual history of modern Britain.Modern British intellectual history has been a particularly flourishing field of enquiry in recent years. These two integrated volumes contain new essays by almost all of its leading proponents, and the essays range chronologically from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century, covering a wide range of topics and thinkers. All are written in a clear, readable style that will make them accessible to scholars and students across a number of neighbouring disciplines, and taken together the two volumes comprise a major overview of the intellectual history of modern Britain.Economy, Polity and Society and its companion volume History, Religion and Culture aim to bring together new essays by many of the leading intellectual historians of the period. The essays in Economy, Polity and Society begin by addressing aspects of the eighteenth-century attempt, particularly in the work of Adam Smith, to come to grips with the nature of commercial society and its distinctive notions of the self, of political liberty, and of economic progress. They then explore the adaptations of and responses to the Enlightenment legacy in the work of such early nineteenth-century figures as Jeremy Bentham, Tom Paine, Maria Edgeworth and Richard Whately. Finally, in discussions that range up to the middle of the twentieth centurló©