Highlights author's pioneering application of rational choice theory to fields outside the usual purview of economics, including criminal behaviour, sociobiology, and... Læs mere
Presents a collection of the author's most representative works in economic method and analysis. This book contains some of the author's most often cited works on... Læs mere
Dedicated to the examination of the place of the individual in contemporary society.
Contains translated essays that derive largely from Thomasius' work on Staatskirchenrecht, or the political jurisprudence of church law. These works were direct... Læs mere
David Humphreys' biography of Israel Putnam was originally published in 1788. All the episodes of the Revolution are retold - Bunker Hill, the Battle of White Plains, the crossing of the Delaware, the Battle of Princeton - but from the perspective of one who was there throughout.
Written from the viewpoint of conservative French opinion, this work represents an important contribution to revolutionary historiography in which Taine condemns the radicals of the French Revolution, unhesitatingly contradicting the rosy, Rousseauesque view of the Revolution.
From the Saxon settlement to the Norman Conquest, from the Norman Conquest to the... Læs mere
Covering the period from the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766 to the outbreak of hostilities at Lexington and Concord in 1775, this work offers a cogent analysis of the politics that led to the American Revolution.