Contents

pp ix-x

1 - Introduction: The state of the art

pp 1-34

PART I

pp 35-36

2 - Virtues, rights, and manners: A model for historians of political thought

pp 37-50

3 - Authority and property: The question of liberal origins

pp 51-72

4 - 1776: The revolution against Parliament

pp 73-88

PART II

pp 89-90

5 - Modes of political and historical time in early eighteenth-century England

pp 91-102

6 - The mobility of property and the rise of eighteenth-century sociology

pp 103-124

7 - Hume and the American Revolution: The dying thoughts of a North Briton

pp 125-142

8 - Gibbon's Decline and Fall and the world view of the Late Enlightenment

pp 143-156

9 - Josiah Tucker on Burke, Locke, and Price: A study in the varieties of eighteenth-century conservatism

pp 157-192

10 - The political economy of Burke's analysis of the French Revolution

pp 193-212

PART III

pp 213-214

11 - The varieties of Whiggism from Exclusion to Reform: A history of ideology and discourse

pp 215-310

Index

pp 311-321