Burrinchini’s Spectre
Peter Clarke, 19 January 1984
That Noble Science of Politics: A Study in 19th-Century Intellectual History
by Stefan Collini, Donald Winch and John Burrow.
Cambridge, 385 pp., £25, November 1983,9780521257626 Show More
by Stefan Collini, Donald Winch and John Burrow.
Cambridge, 385 pp., £25, November 1983,
“... of Burrinchini. The project to which the efforts of Burrinchini are addressed – truly his raison d’être – is to retrieve a historical account of how ‘things political’ were pondered by a number of British writers during the 19th century. If this seems a cumbrous way of putting it, why not simply say that this is the history of Political ... ”