A dazzling comparison of two rival theories about the nature of human liberty.

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Provides one of the most substantial statements about the importance, relevance, and potential excitement of this form of historical enquiry.

Quentin Skinner is one of the foremost historians in the world, and in Hobbes and Republican Liberty he offers a dazzling comparison of two rival theories about

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