In recent decades, French historical scholarship has begun to re-examine the Second Empire, revising a period once interpreted in terms of failure and national tragedy to reveal a moment in which the roots of France’s “modern” republican polity emerged. Yet in spite of this re-e…
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People with learning disabilities are subject to a wide range of potential interferences with their choices and freedoms when they are 'placed' in institutional care services. The cumulative and pervasive impact of these regimes can be monumentally detrimental to self and wellbe…
This thesis examines the treatment of monarchy in extraparliamentarydebate in England during a period in which republicanideology challenged monarchy's utility and sanctity: from the time whenEngland first felt the impact of the French Revolution until the riseof Napoleon. It an…
Witnessing the wide-reaching repercussions of the French and Industrial Revolutions, Auguste Comte and his British followers organised a concerted effort to answer 'the question of modern times,' the 'incorporation of the proletariat into modern society'. This dissertation prese…
This dissertation examines how eighteenth century thinkers Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Adam Smith, and Immanuel Kant defended the value of free markets. It reconstructs their defense of liberal economic reforms, including free trade (domestic and foreign) and the deregulation of…
I argue that modern European philosophy served Simón Bolívar as a theoretical science positing a set of general principles for politics and the human soul. These principles were in turn translated into practical projects of two kinds. One sought the liberal ends of vanquishing d…