Liberty and Property - by Ellen Meiksins Wood (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From Machiavelli to Rousseau, reading theorists as responding to the conflicts of their time.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The formation of the modern state, the rise of capitalism, the Renaissance and Reformation, the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment have all been attributed to the "early modern" period. Nearly everything about its history remains controversial, but one thing is certain: it left a rich and provocative legacy of political ideas unmatched in Western history. The concepts of liberty, equality, property, human rights and revolution born in those turbulent centuries continue to shape, and to limit, political discourse today. Assessing the work and background of figures such as Machiavelli, Luther, Calvin, Spinoza, the Levellers, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, Ellen Wood vividly explores the ideas of the canonical thinkers, not as philosophical abstractions but as passionately engaged responses to the social conflicts of their day.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"... This book is clearly written, incisively argued, and immensely informative."--<i>CHOICE</i> <p/>"a notable book, wide-ranging and perceptive ... [Wood] addresses the heartland of the historiography of political thought from Machiavelli to Rousseau, the territory of its most successful recent practitioners."--Jonathan Clark, <i>TLS</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Ellen Meiksins Wood, </b> for many years Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto, is the author of many books, including <i>Democracy Against Capitalism </i>and, with Verso, <i>The Pristine Culture of Capitalism, The Origin of Capitalism, Peasant-Citizen and Slave, Citizens to Lords, </i> <i>Empire of Capital </i>and <i>Liberty and Property</i>.
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