Changes of State : : Nature and the Limits of the City in Early Modern Natural Law /

Changes of State : : Nature and the Limits of the City in Early Modern Natural Law / / Annabel S. Brett.

This is a book about the theory of the city or commonwealth, what would come to be called the state, in early modern natural law discourse. Annabel Brett takes a fresh approach by looking at this political entity from the perspective of its boundaries and those who crossed them. She begins with a cl...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Brett, Annabel S.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 5 halftones. 1 map.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • A Note on the Text
  • Acknowledgements
  • INTRODUCTION. On the threshold of the state
  • CHAPTER ONE. Travelling the borderline
  • CHAPTER TWO. Constructing human agency
  • CHAPTER THREE. Natural law
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Natural liberty
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Kingdoms founded
  • CHAPTER SIX. The lives of subjects
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Locality
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Re-placing the state
  • Bibliography of works cited
  • Index

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