Book Details
Orange Code:91143
Paperback:420 pages
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1. Introductory: the French Prelude to Modern Historiography2. The Common-law Mind: Custom and the Immemorial3. The Common-law Mind: the Absence of a Basis of Comparison4. The Discovery of Feudalism: French and Scottish Historians5. The Discovery of Feudalism: Sir Henry Spelman6. Interregnum: the Oceana of James Harrington7. Interregnum: the First Royalist Reaction and the Response of Sir Matthew Hale8. The Brady Controversy9. Conclusion: 1688 in the History of Historiography10. Historiography and Common Law11. Civil War and Interregnum12. Restoration, Revolution and Oligarchy
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Professor Pocock's subject is how the seventeenth century looked at its own past. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one of the most important modes of studying the past was the study of the law - the historical outlook which arose in each nation was in part the product of its law, and therefore, in turn of its history. 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.
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