Alfred Cobban

This book explains what history in modern France was not. It covers subjects around the old regime, age of reform, and the decade of revolution.

A History of Modern France

"An excellently arranged, lucidly written, unbiased accouint of Rousseau's political theory, a scholarly book, distinguished for lucidity both in thought and style," and a first rate book in defence of the essential sanity of Roussaeau's thought. It has long been a standard work on the political thought of Rousseau."--Jacket.

Rousseau and the Modern State

Its History and Theory

Dictatorship

The Debate on the French Revolution, 1789-1800

Sir James Harris virke i forbindelse med stabilisering af det nord-vestlige Europa fra 1783-1789. Holland var klemt mellem stormagterne Preussen og Frankrig og allierede sig med England. Bogen beskriver de sideløbende krige i samme periode, bl.a. den russisk-tyrkiske krig 1787.

The Diplomacy of the First Earl of Malmesbury at the Hague

Ambassadors and Secret Agents

An Inaugural Lecture Delivered at University College, London, 6 May 1954

The Myth of the French Revolution

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Edmund Burke and the Revolt Against the Eighteenth Century; a Study of the Political and Social Thinking of Burke, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey

First published in 1934, and revised and expanded in 1964, this book is the standard work on the political thought of Rousseau. It was acclaimed by English reviewers as ‘an excellently arranged, lucidly written, unbiased account of Rousseau’s political theory’, a ‘scholarly book, distinguished for lucidity both in thought and style’, and a ‘first-rate book in defence of the essential sanity of Rousseau’s thought’.

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