In his first essay, "Languages and Their Implications," J. G. A. Pocock announces the emergence of the history of political thought as a discipline apart from political philosophy.

The Discovery of Islands consists of a series of linked essays in British history, written by one of the world's leading historians of political thought and published over the past three decades.

It makes two general assertions: first, that this is in reality a mosaic of narratives, written on diverse premises and never fully synthesized with one another; and second, that these chapters assert a progress of both barbarism and ...

Pocock explores the relationship between the study of law and the historical outlook of seventeenth-century Englishmen.

A major new sequence of works from one of the world's leading historians of ideas.

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Professor Pocock's subject is how the seventeenth century looked at its own past.

Sixth and final volume in an acclaimed series situating Edward Gibbon in a series of contexts in eighteenth-century European history.

This fourth volume in John Pocock's great sequence on Barbarism and Religion focuses on the idea of barbarism.

This fifth volume in John Pocock's acclaimed sequence on Barbarism and Religion turns to the controversy caused by Edward Gibbon's treatment of the early Christian church.