The Rights Of War And Peace: Three Volume Set (Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics) (Bks. 1-3)
Hugo Grotius is one of the most important thinkers in the early-modern period. A great humanistic polymath—lawyer and legal theorist, diplomat and political philosopher, ecumenical activist and theologian—his work was seminal for modern natural law and influenced the moral, political, legal, and theological thought of the Enlightenment, from Hobbes, Pufendorf, and Locke to Rousseau and Kant, as well as America’s Founding leaders.
David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University. He is the author of The Ideological Origins of the British Empire and The Declaration of Independence: A Global History; the editor of Theories of Empire, 1450–1800; and the co-editor of The British Atlantic World, 1500–1800, Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought, and The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, c. 1760–1840.
Richard Hakluyt (d. 1616) was a geographer, editor, and translator of travel literature.
Knud Haakonssen is Professor of Intellectual History and Director of the Centre for Intellectual History at the University of Sussex, England.
Country | USA |
Brand | Liberty Fund |
Manufacturer | Liberty Fund |
Binding | Paperback |
ItemPartNumber | 9780865974319 |
ReleaseDate | 2004-03-12 |
UnitCount | 1 |
Format | Illustrated |
EANs | 9780865974319 |