David Hume and eighteenth-century America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spencer, Mark G.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2005.
Series:Rochester studies in philosophy. [10].
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Hume's works in Colonial and early Revolutionary America
  • Historiographical context for Hume's reception in eighteenth-century America
  • Hume's earliest reception in Colonial America
  • Hume's impact on the prelude to American independence
  • Humean origins of the American Revolution
  • Hume and Madison on faction
  • Was Hume a liability in late eighteenth-century America?
  • Explaining "Publius's" silent use of Hume
  • The reception of Hume's politics in late eighteenth-century America.