Eighteenth-Century Life

William Walker
J. G. A. Pocock and the History of British Political Thought: Assessing the State of the Art
Eighteenth-Century Life - Volume 33, Number 1, Winter 2009, pp. 83-96

Duke University Press

Project MUSE - Eighteenth-Century Life - J. G. A. Pocock and the History of British Political Thought: Assessing the State of the Art Project MUSE Journals Eighteenth-Century Life Volume 33, Number 1, Winter 2009 J. G. A. Pocock and the History of British Political Thought: Assessing the State of the Art Eighteenth-Century Life Volume 33, Number 1, Winter 2009 E-ISSN: 1086-3192 Print ISSN: 0098-2601 J. G. A. Pocock and the History of British Political Thought:Assessing the State of the Art William WalkerUniversity of New South Wales David Armitage, ed. British Political Thought in History, Literature, and Theory, 1500-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2006). Pp. 326. $90.00. ISBN 0-521-87041-0 D. N. DeLuna, ed. The Political Imagination in History: Essays concerning J. G. A. Pocock (Baltimore: Archangul Foundation, 2006). Pp. 274. $24.95. ISBN 1-934084-02-6 In 1985, J. G. A. Pocock and Gordon Schochet founded the Center for the History of British Political Thought at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. Since then, that Center has made a rich contribution to the discipline by organizing and hosting conferences and sponsoring the publication of a wide range of scholarly books and articles of the highest quality. Its twentieth anniversary was marked by a major conference, "British Political Thought in History, Literature, and Theory," the proceedings of which David Armitage has collected and presented in a volume with this title. Since...