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Studies on Montesquieu - Mapping Political Diversity

Part of the International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées Book Series (volume 224)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-77456-5

ISBN: 978-3-319-77454-1

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

May 16, 2018

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Chapter 1The Natural Environment, Society and Government

Minuti, Rolando

Pages: 1 –20

[Unfortunately, there are only a few surviving fragments concerning one of the most interesting areas of enquiry opened up by the young Montesquieu. In the Nouveau Mercure dated 1 January 1719 – and, soon afterwards, in the Journal des Savants – we find the prospectus of a Projet d’une histoire...
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Chapter 2Japan and the Tyranny of Legislation

Minuti, Rolando

Pages: 21 –43

[To choose just one epithet from the vast documentation defining Japanese culture and society accumulated in Europe in the early modern era, and in particular during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries – expressing an image of ‘diversity’ going well beyond the «Christian century» – we would...
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Chapter 3The Image of Russia

Minuti, Rolando

Pages: 45 –65

[In late 1712 the British engineer John Perry set out on the return journey from the Russian imperial court travelling with the British ambassador Charles Whitworth. He had spent fourteen years in Russia serving Tsar Peter the Great with his expertise in works of canalization and hydraulic...
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Chapter 4«The Most Singular People on Earth»

Minuti, Rolando

Pages: 67 –92

[The reader of Lettres Persanes is struck by the author’s excitement at the spectacle of the nomad empires in Central Asia and his astonishment at the extent of the Tartar conquests. In fact Montesquieu compared them favourably with those of Alexander the Great and went on to say that what this...
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Chapter 5India in the Work of Montesquieu

Minuti, Rolando

Pages: 93 –114

[The East Indies presented a particularly intricate problem on the vast map of social and political diversity for which Montesquieu wanted to propose new criteria of analysis and classification in the Esprit des Lois. The most salient feature of this complex body that was - only apparently – held...
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Chapter 6Montesquieu’s America

Minuti, Rolando

Pages: 115 –134

[On the whole, Montesquieu did not devote as much attention to the Americas, at least not in quantitative terms, as he did to other areas outside of Europe, such as the Far East in general – and China in particular, or to ancient and modern European history. When viewed in relation to the scope...
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Chapter 7After the Esprit des Lois: Montesquieu and Travel Literature

Minuti, Rolando

Pages: 135 –156

[The years between the publication of the Esprit des Lois and Montesquieu’s death in 1755 were mainly marked by the rapidly growing fame of a book that the French and European cultural and philosophical milieus had immediately acknowledged as a key text, and by the polemics and discussions that...
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Chapter 8Montesquieu and the History of Intolerance

Minuti, Rolando

Pages: 157 –180

[Among the manuscripts that are part of ms 2506 in the Bibliothèque Municipale of Bordeaux there is one dossier entitled Diverses destructions. As the many volumes in his manuscript collection and the various scattered items that are part of his atelier show, Montesquieu was a man who organized...
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Chapter 9Montesquieu and Islam: An Overview

Minuti, Rolando

Pages: 181 –195

[The subject of Islam presents a particularly broad and difficult array of problems in the cultural and intellectual history of the Modern era. Scholarly literature has frequently dwelt on these issues, and especially now in relation to the tensions in the contemporary world. This has triggered...

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