Catharine Macaulay

Catharine Macaulay: Political Writings

Herausgeber: Skjönsberg, Max

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Produktbeschreibung

The first modern scholarly edition of the published writings of historian and political pamphleteer Catharine Macaulay, who made a significant contribution to debates about political reform in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution. Influencing Wollstonecraft and proto-feminism, she wrote about education, the rights of women, and animal rights.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 329
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 138mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9781009307444
• ISBN-10: 1009307444
• Artikelnr.: 65690631

Autorenporträt

University of Cambridge

Inhaltsangabe

Selections from The History of England (1763¿83); Loose Remarks on Certain
Positions to be Found in Mr. Hobbes's 'Philosophical Rudiments of
Government and Society', with a Short Sketch of a Democratical Form of
Government, in a Letter to Signor Paoli (1767); Observations on a Pamphlet
entitled 'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents' (1770); A
Modest Plea for the Property of Copy Right (1774); An Address to the People
of England, Scotland and Ireland on the Present Important Crisis of Affairs
(1775); Selections from The History of England from the Revolution to the
Present Time in a Series of Letters to a Friend (1778); Selections from
Letters on Education, with Observations on Religious and Metaphysical
Subjects (1790); Observations on the Reflections of the Right Hon. Edmund
Burke on the Revolution in France (1790).