Hardcover
2015 · Charlottesville and London
by Mattes, Armin
Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2015. Hardcover. VG/VG. Sticker from Washington College on ffep, otherwise clean and tight.. Blue cloth with silver lettering on spine. White dust jacket with reddish lettering. xi; 266 pp. "To illustrate the transatlantic emergence of these ideas, Mattes considers the works of pairs of prominent intellectual contemporaries--one in America and the other in Europe--each writing on a common topic. The thinkers and topics include Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke on the transatlantic revolutions, John Adams and Friedrich von Gentz on the mixed constitution, James Madison and Immanuel Kant on perpetual peace, and Thomas Jefferon and Destutt de Tracy on the nation." -- dj flap.
(Inventory #: 169900)