David Hume and eighteenth-century America
By: Mark G. Spencer
Series: Rochester studies in philosophy -- [10]
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 534
Subjects: Hume, David, -- 1711-1776; Political science -- United States -- History -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [469]-504) and index
Table of contents: title: Hume's works in Colonial and early Revolutionary America; title: Historiographical context for Hume's reception in eighteenth-century America; title: Hume's earliest reception in Colonial America; title: Hume's impact on the prelude to American independence; title: Humean origins of the American Revolution; title: Hume and Madison on faction; title: Was Hume a liability in late eighteenth-century America?; title: Explaining "Publius's" silent use of Hume; title: The reception of Hume's politics in late eighteenth-century America