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CHAPTER ONE: TRADITIONAL SOCIETY: REASON AND DESIRE UNDER WRAPS
GERBERT AND HIS TIMES
POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND IDEOLOGICAL POWER
ABELARD, HELOISE, AND THE STATUS OF WOMEN
THE INTELLECTUAL REVOLUTION
CHAPTER TWO: THOMAS AQUINAS AND THE SEDIMENTATION OF SOCIAL
THOUGHT
THOMAS AQUINAS
The principle of hierarchy
Rationality
Trade, Commerce, and Political Authority
THE DECLINE OF THE WEST
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER THREE: THE REVOLUTION IN NATURAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CHANGE
THOMAS HOBBES
The State of Nature and the Social Contract
Leviathan
SOCIAL CHANGE AND RADICALISM IN ENGLAND
The English Revolution
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER FOUR: LIBERALISM AND REVOLUTION: ENGLAND AND AMERICA
JOHN LOCKE
Natural Law
Political Theory
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER FIVE: ECONOMIC LIBERALISM AND RURAL NOSTALGIA
BERNARD MANDEVILLE
ADAM SMITH
Free Trade, Laissez-Faire, and the Division of Labour
THOMAS MALTHUS
RURAL NOSTALGIA AND SOCIAL SATIRE
Jonathan Swift
CHAPTER SIX: WOMEN AND ABOLITIONISM
THE STATUS OF WOMEN
Mary Astell
Abigail Adams
NATURAL LAW AND SLAVERY
DANIEL DEFOE
Robinson Crusoe
ABOLITIONISM
LIBERATION AND REVOLUTION IN SAINT DOMINIQUE
CHAPTER SEVEN: THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND ROUSSEAU
THE ENLIGHTENMENT
Emile and Sophie
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER EIGHT: REVOLUTION, RIGHTS, AND WOMEN
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
Revolutionary Ideologies
Revolutionary Practice
BABEUF AND THE CONSPIRACY OF EQUALS
NAPOLEON’S COUP D’ÉTAT
WOMEN AND ENLIGHTENMENT
Mary Wollstonecraft
Germaine de Staël
Jane Austen and Women’s Fiction
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER NINE: THE CONSERVATIVE AND ROMANTIC REACTION
CONSERVATISM
Romantic Conservatism
ROMANTICISM
ROMANTICS IN ENGLAND
ROMANTICS IN FRANCE
George Sand
THOREAU AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER TEN: POSITIVISM AND SOCIAL LIBERALISM
POSITIVISM
SOCIAL LIBERALISM
JOHN STUART AND HARRIET TAYLOR MILL
On Liberty
SOCIAL REALISM
Elizabeth Gaskell
Charles Dickens
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER ELEVEN: EVOLUTION. NATURALISM, AND SOCIAL DARWINISM
THE THEORY OF EVOLUTIONISM
Fossils or Via Plastica?
JEAN-BAPTISTE LAMARCK
The Conservative Reaction
DARWIN AND NATURAL SELECTION
Darwin and Victorianism
NATURALISM
HERBERT SPENCER
Government Regulation
Social Darwinism
Evolutionary Sociology
SOCIAL DARWINISM IN AMERICA
CHAPTER TWELVE: PROGRESSIVISM, RACE, AND EMANCIPATION
PROGRESSIVISM
THORSTEIN VEBLEN
Instincts of Work and Emulation
Conspicuous Consumption
IMPERIALISM AND RACISM
AFRICAN-AMERICAN EMANCIPATION
Booker T. Washington
Ida Wells
W. E. B. Du Bois
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: FIN DE SIECLE SOCIAL THOUGHT AND DECADENCE
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
FIN DE SIECLE
DECADENCE
Oscar Wilde
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: CONCLUSION