Christopher Berry explains why Enlightenment thinkers considered commercial society to be wealthier and freer than earlier forms, looking at key works from Adam

Upper-level undergraduate students, postgraduates and scholars working specifically on the Scottish Enlightenment and early modern political and economic though

Historians of ideas have traditionally discussed the significance of the French Revolution through the prism of several major interpretations, including the com

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