Adam Ferguson in the Scottish enlightenment : the Roman past and Europe's future /
Although overshadowed by his contemporaries Adam Smith and David Hume, the Scottish philosopher Adam Ferguson strongly influenced eighteenth-century currents of political thought. A major reassessment of this neglected figure, Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe�...
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full text (MCPHS users only) |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2013
|
| Subjects: | |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
MARC
| LEADER | 00000cam a2200000 a 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | in00000090115 | ||
| 006 | m o d | ||
| 007 | cr cnu---unuuu | ||
| 008 | 130304s2013 mau ob 001 0 eng d | ||
| 005 | 20240626183006.0 | ||
| 010 | |z 2012034074 | ||
| 019 | |a 843072088 |a 961601974 |a 962705669 |a 979629339 |a 992897096 |a 1086827318 |a 1162452738 |a 1259103530 | ||
| 020 | |a 9780674075269 |q (electronic bk.) | ||
| 020 | |a 0674075269 |q (electronic bk.) | ||
| 020 | |a 0674075285 | ||
| 020 | |a 9780674075283 | ||
| 020 | |z 9780674072961 | ||
| 020 | |z 0674072960 | ||
| 024 | 7 | |a 10.4159/harvard.9780674075269 |2 doi | |
| 024 | 8 | |a ebc3301240 | |
| 029 | 1 | |a AU@ |b 000053336397 | |
| 029 | 1 | |a AU@ |b 000062373441 | |
| 029 | 1 | |a AU@ |b 000063484046 | |
| 029 | 1 | |a CHNEW |b 000720244 | |
| 029 | 1 | |a DEBBG |b BV042343166 | |
| 029 | 1 | |a DEBBG |b BV043154898 | |
| 029 | 1 | |a DEBBG |b BV044186595 | |
| 029 | 1 | |a DEBSZ |b 421286032 | |
| 029 | 1 | |a DEBSZ |b 449695077 | |
| 029 | 1 | |a NZ1 |b 15492419 | |
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)828869697 |z (OCoLC)843072088 |z (OCoLC)961601974 |z (OCoLC)962705669 |z (OCoLC)979629339 |z (OCoLC)992897096 |z (OCoLC)1086827318 |z (OCoLC)1162452738 |z (OCoLC)1259103530 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)ocn828869697 | ||
| 037 | |a 22573/ctt2f1k9x |b JSTOR | ||
| 040 | |a N$T |b eng |e pn |c N$T |d YDXCP |d EMU |d E7B |d JSTOR |d COO |d OCLCF |d OCLCO |d NLGGC |d OCL |d OCLCO |d EBLCP |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d OCLCQ |d DEBSZ |d OCLCO |d UIU |d OCLCO |d OCLCQ |d AZK |d OCLCO |d LOA |d AGLDB |d PIFPO |d MERUC |d OCLCQ |d ZCU |d IOG |d OCLCO |d DEGRU |d DEBBG |d OCLCA |d U3W |d EZ9 |d STF |d WRM |d VNS |d OCLCQ |d VTS |d NRAMU |d ICG |d BRX |d VT2 |d WYU |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d YOU |d TKN |d LEAUB |d DKC |d OCLCQ |d M8D |d OCLCA |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d OCLCQ |d VLY |d AJS |d S2H |d OCLCO |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d OCLCQ |d QGK |d OCLCO |d OCLCL | ||
| 043 | |a ff----- |a aw----- |a e-uk--- | ||
| 050 | 4 | |a JC83 |b .M35 2013eb | |
| 072 | 7 | |a POL |x 007000 |2 bisacsh | |
| 072 | 7 | |a PHI019000 |2 bisacsh | |
| 072 | 7 | |a HIS010000 |2 bisacsh | |
| 072 | 7 | |a POL010000 |2 bisacsh | |
| 072 | 7 | |a HIS037050 |2 bisacsh | |
| 072 | 7 | |a HIS |x 010000 |2 bisacsh | |
| 072 | 0 | |a 1D | |
| 072 | 0 | |a 3JF | |
| 072 | 0 | |a HB | |
| 072 | 0 | |a HBJD | |
| 072 | 0 | |a HBLL | |
| 072 | 0 | |a HPS | |
| 072 | 0 | |a JPA | |
| 072 | 0 | |a JPHV | |
| 072 | |a 1D | ||
| 072 | |a 3JF | ||
| 072 | |a HB | ||
| 072 | |a HBJD | ||
| 072 | |a HBLL | ||
| 072 | |a HPS | ||
| 072 | |a JPA | ||
| 072 | |a JPHV | ||
| 082 | 0 | 4 | |a 321.8/6 |2 23 |
| 100 | 1 | |a McDaniel, Iain, |d 1975- |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjwfv64DyPMMYCyFRhJRXb | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Adam Ferguson in the Scottish enlightenment : |b the Roman past and Europe's future / |c Iain McDaniel. |
| 260 | |a Cambridge, Mass. : |b Harvard University Press, |c 2013. | ||
| 300 | |a 1 online resource | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 347 | |a text file | ||
| 347 | |b PDF | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Montesquieu and the unfree republic -- Military government and empire in the Scottish enlightenment -- Ferguson and the moral foundations of civil society -- Trajectories of the modern commercial state -- Britain's future in a Roman mirror -- Civil-military union and the modern state -- Revolution and modern republicanism. | |
| 520 | |a Although overshadowed by his contemporaries Adam Smith and David Hume, the Scottish philosopher Adam Ferguson strongly influenced eighteenth-century currents of political thought. A major reassessment of this neglected figure, Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe's Future sheds new light on Ferguson as a serious critic, rather than an advocate, of the Enlightenment belief in liberal progress. Unlike the philosophes who looked upon Europe's growing prosperity and saw confirmation of a utopian future, Ferguson saw something else: a reminder of Rome's lesson that egalitarian democracy could become a self-undermining path to dictatorship. Ferguson viewed the intrinsic power struggle between civil and military authorities as the central dilemma of modern constitutional governments. He believed that the key to understanding the forces that propel nations toward tyranny lay in analysis of ancient Roman history. It was the alliance between popular and militaristic factions within the Roman republic, Ferguson believed, which ultimately precipitated its downfall. Democratic forces, intended as a means of liberation from tyranny, could all too easily become the engine of political oppression--a fear that proved prescient when the French Revolution spawned the expansionist wars of Napoleon. As Iain McDaniel makes clear, Ferguson's skepticism about the ability of constitutional states to weather pervasive conditions of warfare and emergency has particular relevance for twenty-first-century geopolitics. This revelatory study will resonate with debates over the troubling tendency of powerful democracies to curtail civil liberties and pursue imperial ambitions. | ||
| 520 | |a Unlike his contemporaries, who saw Europe's prosperity as confirmation of a utopian future, the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher Adam Ferguson saw a reminder of Rome's lesson that egalitarian democracy could become a self-undermining path to dictatorship. This is a major reassessment of a critic overshadowed today by David Hume and Adam Smith. | ||
| 546 | |a In English. | ||
| 588 | 0 | |a Print version record. | |
| 590 | |a ProQuest Ebook Central |b Ebook Central Academic Complete | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Ferguson, Adam, |d 1723-1816. |
| 650 | 0 | |a Republicanism |z Rome |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Enlightenment |z Scotland. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Rome |x Politics and government. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Great Britain |x Politics and government. | |
| 758 | |i has work: |a Adam Ferguson in the Scottish enlightenment (Text) |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCFrrMDHXcxqFqPtyqVjKVC |4 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork | ||
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a McDaniel, Iain, 1975- |t Adam Ferguson in the Scottish enlightenment. |d Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013 |z 9780674072961 |w (DLC) 2012034074 |w (OCoLC)810772980 |
| 852 | |b E-Collections |h ProQuest | ||
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/mcphs/detail.action?docID=3301240 |z Full text (MCPHS users only) |t 0 |
| 938 | |a De Gruyter |b DEGR |n 9780674075269 | ||
| 938 | |a EBL - Ebook Library |b EBLB |n EBL3301240 | ||
| 938 | |a ebrary |b EBRY |n ebr10664496 | ||
| 938 | |a EBSCOhost |b EBSC |n 520746 | ||
| 938 | |a YBP Library Services |b YANK |n 10248986 | ||
| 947 | |a FLO |x pq-ebc-base | ||
| 999 | f | f | |s 07e656bf-e3f5-473a-8135-f0a5dc10c2f0 |i dce05f4f-bfb0-44f0-9d38-145cb6a14b05 |t 0 |
| 952 | f | f | |a Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences |b Online |c Online |d E-Collections |t 0 |e ProQuest |h Other scheme |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |t 0 |u https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/mcphs/detail.action?docID=3301240 |y Full text (MCPHS users only) |
