The Riddle of the Modern World: Of Liberty, Wealth and Equality (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780333984505)

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The Riddle of the Modern World: Of Liberty, Wealth and Equality

$53.00

The Riddle of the Modern World: Of Liberty, Wealth and Equality

$53.00
Format: Paperback
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What conditions the chances of liberty, wealth and equality at the start of the third Christian millennium? Why did human civilizations develop so slowly for thousands of years, and then transform themselves during the last three hundred? This study of four great thinkers who lived between 1689 and 1995, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, De Tocqueville, and Ernest Gellner, weaves their lives and works together and through their own words shows how they approached the question of the nature of man, his past and his future.

Author: A. MacFarlane
ISBN-10: 0333984501
ISBN-13: 9780333984505
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 07/11/2000
Pages: 326
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.54w x 0.84d
By A. MacFarlane
By A. MacFarlane
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ALAN MACFARLANE is Professor of Anthropological Science at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1986. His previous books include Marriage and Love in England 1300-1840 (1986), The Culture of Capitalism (1987), The Savage Wars of Peace (1997).

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