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Commerce and Politics in Hume's History of England (Hardcover)
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Commerce and Politics in Hume's History of England (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History
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Illuminates the relationship between Hume the political thinker,
Hume the historian, and Hume the political economist and highlights
the social, economic and institutional changes which he wove into
an innovative theory of causation David Hume's six-volume History
of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in
1688 (1754-61) is probably his most important work as a
constitutional historian and political theorist. Jia Wei's book
shows that the History can be understood in two ways: firstly, as
Hume's own narrative of England's state formation, and secondly, as
his answer to the question of how eighteenth-century Britain could
cope with the challengesof commercial revolution. It illuminates
the relationship between Hume the political thinker, Hume the
historian, and Hume the political economist and highlights the
social, economic and institutional changes which he wove into
aninnovative theory of causation. The first part of the book
considers Hume's account of the fundamental rationale of maritime
trade and England's unique approach to liberty in the modern era.
The second part looks at his views concerning the profound impact
of maritime trade on English politics. From his perspective, the
problem of how to cope with the challenges posed by the commercial
revolution in eighteenth-century Britain was closely linked tothe
question of how transoceanic trade had fundamentally recast English
politics from the sixteenth century onwards. This study shows how
these two narratives were interwoven into Hume's History and will
be of interest to scholars and students not only of David Hume and
political theory but of historiography, eighteenth-century British
history and Enlightenment studies. JIA WEI received her PhD from
the University of Cambridge.
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