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Changes of State : Nature and the Limits of the City in Early Modern Natural Law /

This is a book about the theory of the city or commonwealth, what would come to be called the state, in early modern natural law discourse. Annabel Brett takes a fresh approach by looking at this political entity from the perspective of its boundaries and those who crossed them. She begins with a cl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Brett, Annabel S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: On the threshold of state
  • Travelling the borderline
  • Constructing human agency
  • Natural law
  • Natural liberty
  • Kingdoms founded
  • The lives of subjects
  • Locality
  • Re-placing the state.