The Discovery of Islands presents a series of linked essays by one of the world's leading historians. Each essay presents British history as that of several nations interacting with an imperial state, a view which has been hugely influential in recent studies.
The Discovery of Islands presents a series of linked essays by one of the world's leading historians. Each essay presents British history as that of several nations interacting with an imperial state, a view which has been hugely influential in recent studies.
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.
This is the sixth and final volume in an acclaimed sequence of works situating Edward Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a series of contexts in the history of Europe. This is a major intervention from one of the world's leading historians of ideas.
This volume in Pocock's acclaimed sequence on Barbarism and Religion examines the controversy caused by Gibbon's treatment of the early... Læs mere
This is the sixth and final volume in an acclaimed sequence of works situating Edward Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a series of contexts in the history of Europe. This is a major intervention from one of the world's leading historians of ideas.
John Pocock is arguably the most influential historian of ideas of modern times. These essays are selected from a lifetime of thinking about... Læs mere
In the fourth volume of Barbarism and Religion - Edward Gibbon's own phrase, Pocock argues that barbarism was central to the history of western historiography, to the history of the Enlightenment, and to Edward Gibbon himself. This book was first published in 2005.
This is the third in a sequence of works by John Pocock designed to situate Edward Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a series of contexts in the history of Europe. This is a major intervention from one of the world's leading historians of ideas.
This volume in Pocock's acclaimed sequence on Barbarism and Religion examines the controversy caused by Gibbon's treatment of the early... Læs mere
In the fourth volume of Barbarism and Religion - Edward Gibbon's own phrase, Pocock argues that barbarism was central to the history of western historiography, to the history of the Enlightenment, and to Edward Gibbon himself. This book was first published in 2005.
John Pocock is arguably the most influential historian of ideas of modern times. These essays are selected from a lifetime of thinking about... Læs mere