a study of English historical thought in the seventeenth century :a reissue with a retrospect /
First Statement of Responsibility
J.G.A. Pocock.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1987.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xv, 402 pages ;
Dimensions
24 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Cambridge paperback library
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Constitutional history-- Great Britain.
Political science-- Great Britain-- History-- 17th century.
Science politique-- Grande-Bretagne-- Histoire-- 17e siècle.