Rethinking the Politics of Commercial Society: The Edinburgh Review 1802-1832

by Biancamaria Fontana

Book Overview

This book explores the sources of modern British liberalism through a study of the Edinburgh Review, the most influential and controversial early nineteenth-century British periodical. Founded by a group of young Scottish intellectuals in 1802, the Review served as a principal channel through which the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment gained wider currency, and did much to popularize the doctrines of economic and political reform. As Dr Fontana...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521303354
• ISBN13: 9780521303354
• Release Date: December 1985
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"