Max Skjönsberg
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1069330 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Max Skjönsberg |
| NOMBRES | Max |
| APELLIDO | Skjönsberg |
| FIRMA | SKJÖNSBERG M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7106-3728 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain
Catharine Macaulay: Political Writings: Political Writings
The writings of republican historian and political pamphleteer Catharine Macaulay (1731–91) played a central role in debates about political reform in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution. A critical reader of Hume's bestselling History of England, she broke new ground in historiography by defending the regicide of Charles I and became an inspiration for many luminaries of the American and French revolutions. While her historical and political…
Adam Ferguson’s Later Writings: New Letters and an Essay on the French Revolution
A critically introduced and edited collection of new letters and an essay by the philosopher Adam Ferguson Includes 36 new letters and one essay published for the first time and contextualised within Ferguson’s oeuvre Helps to fill in large gaps in Ferguson’s biography Presents new angles on major areas of study including the East India Company, the Regency Crisis, Scottish reactions to the French Revolution, and contemporary perceptions of Adam …
Patriots and the Country party tradition in the eighteenth century: The critics of Britain’s fiscal-military state from Robert Harley to Catharine Macaulay
The distinguished historian Steven Pincus has recently argued that “Patriotism” was a distinctive ideology in the middle of the eighteenth century that indicated “governmental activism” and support for “the British way of governing, grounded in the principles set forth in England’s Revolution of 1688–89.” By contrast, this essay shows that “Patriot” was more commonly used as a generic term for opposition politicians in eighteenth-century Britain.…
A Theory of the Enlightenment in Late Eighteenth-Century Sweden: Nils von Rosenstein and Scotland’s Science of Man and Politics
Nils von Rosenstein’s Försök til en afhandling om uplysningen, til dess beskaffenhet, nytta och nödvändighet för samhället (An Attempt at a Dissertation on the Enlightenment, its Character, Usefulness and Necessity for Society), published in 1793, presents an unusually comprehensive theory of ‘the Enlightenment’ (Upplysningen) from a contemporary of the period. This article explores the impact of Enlightenment ideas in late eighteenth-century Swe…
The Hume-Burke connection examined
This article examines the connection, personal and intellectual, between David Hume and Edmund Burke. Scholars have often compared the two thinkers, mainly in an unsystematic and selective way. Burke’s early biographers regarded them as opposite figures on account of Hume’s religious and philosophical scepticism and Burke’s devout Christian faith. By contrast, modern scholars often stress their intellectual kinship. More specifically, they have r…
Richard Champion and the Rockingham Whigs: The Aristocratic Politics of a Bristolian Quaker Merchant in the Age of the American Revolution
This article explores the political career and writings of Richard Champion (1743–1791), a Bristolian Quaker and merchant who acted as a local supporter and agent of the Rockingham Whigs. It aims to recover a forgotten aspect of Lewis Namier’s original ambition to understand eighteenth-century politics through the perspective of relatively ordinary people such as merchants and civil servants. However, against old Namierite assumptions, as well as…
Catharine Macaulay: Political Writings
Charles Francis Sheridan on the Feudal Origins and Political Science of the 1772 Revolution in Sweden
Gustav III's royal coup in 1772 reestablished strong monarchy and ended the Age of Liberty (Frihetstiden) in Sweden. The event attracted much interest and commentary across Europe. The most detailed account of the episode and sophisticated analysis of its causes was Charles Francis Sheridan's now forgotten History of the Late Revolution in Sweden (1778). Sheridan used Enlightenment history and political science to argue that the reasons for the S…
‘This Revolution in the Town’: Richard Champion and the early years of the Bristol Library Society
This article explores the motivation of the founders of subscription libraries in the second half of the eighteenth century through the case study of Richard Champion, a Dissenter from a commercial background who was deeply immersed in the political and associational life of Bristol. Having been denied the opportunity to study at university, in setting up the Bristol Library Society in 1772 Champion was driven by a desire to acquire educational o…
The History of Political Thought and Parliamentary History in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
This review article considers the potentially fruitful relationship between the history of political thought and parliamentary history through a survey of recent books on Britain and France. Traditionally, this relationship has not been intimate, as the major historians of political thought have concentrated on linguistic and philosophical contexts, alongside political economy. However, as historians of political thought turn to concepts such as …
Edmund Burke, the French Revolution and the Battle for the Soul of the Whig Party
Edmund Burke split dramatically with Charles James Fox and his Whig connection after the outbreak of the French Revolution. In his Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791), Burke contended that he had not abandoned his party's principles and that it was the Foxite Whigs who had morphed into a new party. The article demonstrates that while Burke believed that the French Revolution rendered old party battles irrelevant to an extent, he did not l…
David Hume and the Jacobites
This article examines the connections between the Scottish Enlightenment thinker David Hume (1711–76) and the Jacobites. Many of his friendships with Jacobites are known, but they have rarely been explored in detail, perhaps because they sit uneasily with the now dominant interpretation of Hume as a whig. While he was frequently accused of Jacobitism in his lifetime, this article does not seek to revive the myth that he was committed to the cause…
Edmund Burke and the British Empire in the West Indies: Wealth, Power and Slavery, by P.J. Marshall
Edmund Burke and the British Empire in the West Indies: Wealth, Power and Slavery, by P.J. Marshall Edmund Burke and the British Empire in the West Indies: Wealth, Power and Slavery, by P.J. Marshall (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2019; pp. 243. £65). Max Skjönsberg Max Skjönsberg University of Liverpool, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 136, Is…
Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier, by D.W. Hayton
Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier, by D.W. Hayton Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier, by D.W. Hayton (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2019; pp. 472. £25). Max Skjönsberg Max Skjönsberg University of Liverpool, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 136, Issue 578, February 2021, Pages 241–243, https://doi.o…
State of the Field: The History of Political Thought
This article surveys the state of the field of the history of political thought. The premise of the discipline is that political arguments and ideas have developed historically and thus have theoretical histories that can be located and traced. But, as our survey of the field shows, what counts as ‘context’ is up for debate, and contextual methods have become more sensitive to present‐day concerns. The border between the history of political thou…
Adam Ferguson and the Idea of Civil Society: Moral Science in the Scottish Enlightenment, by Craig Smith
Modern interpreters of Adam Ferguson have routinely commented on the apparent contradictions, or at least the mixture of motley and unstable elements, which supposedly characterise his thought. He
Adam Ferguson on the Perils of Popular Factions and Demagogues in a Roman Mirror
For the Scottish Enlightenment thinker Adam Ferguson (1723–1816) and many of his time, the history of the Roman Republic furnished the best case study for discussions of internal threats to a mixed system of government. These included factionalism, popular discontent, and the rise of demagogues seeking to concentrate power in their own hands. Ferguson has sometimes been interpreted as a ‘Machiavellian’ who celebrated the legacy of Rome and in par…
Hume and Smith studies after Forbes and Trevor-Roper
The ‘Scottish Enlightenment’ has fostered a steadily growing academic industry since Duncan Forbes and Hugh Trevor-Roper put the subject on the map in the 1960s. David Hume and Adam Smith have from the start been widely considered as its leading thinkers, and their thoughts on politics have attracted an increasing amount of attention in recent years. Two new publications invite readers to reflect on the state of the art in Scottish Enlightenment …
On the Character of a “Great Patriot”: A New Essay Ascribed to Bolingbroke
This article presents the first addition in recent years to the canon of the British eighteenth-century statesman and political thinker Lord Bolingbroke (1678–1751), a manuscript essay “On the Character of a Great Patriot.” For the first time, this article identifies Bolingbroke as the likely author of this unascribed, undated, and untitled essay in the Senate House Library manuscript collection. Using internal and contextual evidence, the articl…
Adam Ferguson on Partisanship, Party Conflict, and Popular Participation
Adam Ferguson has usually been portrayed as an advocate of conflict, political parties, and factional strife. This article demonstrates that this is a rather unbalanced reading. A careful investigation of Ferguson's works and correspondence in context reveals a man deeply troubled by both turbulence and party politics. He consistently expressed fears of what he saw as the tumultuous populace, and the willingness of party leaders to rise on the sh…
Lord Bolingbroke's Theory of Party and Opposition
Bolingbroke has been overlooked by intellectual historians in the last few decades, at least in comparison with ‘canonical’ thinkers. This article examines one of the most important but disputable aspects of his political thought: his views on political parties and his theory of opposition. It aims to demonstrate that Bolingbroke's views on party have been misunderstood and that it is possible to think of him as an advocate of political parties r…
Lord Bolingbroke's Theory of Party and Opposition
Bolingbroke has been overlooked by intellectual historians in the last few decades, at least in comparison with ‘canonical’ thinkers. This article examines one of the most important but disputable aspects of his political thought: his views on political parties and his theory of opposition. It aims to demonstrate that Bolingbroke's views on party have been misunderstood and that it is possible to think of him as an advocate of political parties r…
David Hume and the Jacobites
This article examines the connections between the Scottish Enlightenment thinker David Hume (1711–76) and the Jacobites. Many of his friendships with Jacobites are known, but they have rarely been explored in detail, perhaps because they sit uneasily with the now dominant interpretation of Hume as a whig. While he was frequently accused of Jacobitism in his lifetime, this article does not seek to revive the myth that he was committed to the cause…
State of the Field: The History of Political Thought
This article surveys the state of the field of the history of political thought. The premise of the discipline is that political arguments and ideas have developed historically and thus have theoretical histories that can be located and traced. But, as our survey of the field shows, what counts as ‘context’ is up for debate, and contextual methods have become more sensitive to present‐day concerns. The border between the history of political thou…
Adam Ferguson on Partisanship, Party Conflict, and Popular Participation
Adam Ferguson has usually been portrayed as an advocate of conflict, political parties, and factional strife. This article demonstrates that this is a rather unbalanced reading. A careful investigation of Ferguson's works and correspondence in context reveals a man deeply troubled by both turbulence and party politics. He consistently expressed fears of what he saw as the tumultuous populace, and the willingness of party leaders to rise on the sh…
Patriots and the Country party tradition in the eighteenth century: The critics of Britain’s fiscal-military state from Robert Harley to Catharine Macaulay
The distinguished historian Steven Pincus has recently argued that “Patriotism” was a distinctive ideology in the middle of the eighteenth century that indicated “governmental activism” and support for “the British way of governing, grounded in the principles set forth in England’s Revolution of 1688–89.” By contrast, this essay shows that “Patriot” was more commonly used as a generic term for opposition politicians in eighteenth-century Britain.…
The Hume-Burke connection examined
This article examines the connection, personal and intellectual, between David Hume and Edmund Burke. Scholars have often compared the two thinkers, mainly in an unsystematic and selective way. Burke’s early biographers regarded them as opposite figures on account of Hume’s religious and philosophical scepticism and Burke’s devout Christian faith. By contrast, modern scholars often stress their intellectual kinship. More specifically, they have r…
Richard Champion and the Rockingham Whigs: The Aristocratic Politics of a Bristolian Quaker Merchant in the Age of the American Revolution
This article explores the political career and writings of Richard Champion (1743–1791), a Bristolian Quaker and merchant who acted as a local supporter and agent of the Rockingham Whigs. It aims to recover a forgotten aspect of Lewis Namier’s original ambition to understand eighteenth-century politics through the perspective of relatively ordinary people such as merchants and civil servants. However, against old Namierite assumptions, as well as…
Adam Ferguson on the Perils of Popular Factions and Demagogues in a Roman Mirror
For the Scottish Enlightenment thinker Adam Ferguson (1723–1816) and many of his time, the history of the Roman Republic furnished the best case study for discussions of internal threats to a mixed system of government. These included factionalism, popular discontent, and the rise of demagogues seeking to concentrate power in their own hands. Ferguson has sometimes been interpreted as a ‘Machiavellian’ who celebrated the legacy of Rome and in par…
On the Character of a “Great Patriot”: A New Essay Ascribed to Bolingbroke
This article presents the first addition in recent years to the canon of the British eighteenth-century statesman and political thinker Lord Bolingbroke (1678–1751), a manuscript essay “On the Character of a Great Patriot.” For the first time, this article identifies Bolingbroke as the likely author of this unascribed, undated, and untitled essay in the Senate House Library manuscript collection. Using internal and contextual evidence, the articl…
Lord Bolingbroke's Theory of Party and Opposition
Bolingbroke has been overlooked by intellectual historians in the last few decades, at least in comparison with ‘canonical’ thinkers. This article examines one of the most important but disputable aspects of his political thought: his views on political parties and his theory of opposition. It aims to demonstrate that Bolingbroke's views on party have been misunderstood and that it is possible to think of him as an advocate of political parties r…
Adam Ferguson on Partisanship, Party Conflict, and Popular Participation
Adam Ferguson has usually been portrayed as an advocate of conflict, political parties, and factional strife. This article demonstrates that this is a rather unbalanced reading. A careful investigation of Ferguson's works and correspondence in context reveals a man deeply troubled by both turbulence and party politics. He consistently expressed fears of what he saw as the tumultuous populace, and the willingness of party leaders to rise on the sh…
Hume and Smith studies after Forbes and Trevor-Roper
The ‘Scottish Enlightenment’ has fostered a steadily growing academic industry since Duncan Forbes and Hugh Trevor-Roper put the subject on the map in the 1960s. David Hume and Adam Smith have from the start been widely considered as its leading thinkers, and their thoughts on politics have attracted an increasing amount of attention in recent years. Two new publications invite readers to reflect on the state of the art in Scottish Enlightenment …
On the Character of a “Great Patriot”: A New Essay Ascribed to Bolingbroke
This article presents the first addition in recent years to the canon of the British eighteenth-century statesman and political thinker Lord Bolingbroke (1678–1751), a manuscript essay “On the Character of a Great Patriot.” For the first time, this article identifies Bolingbroke as the likely author of this unascribed, undated, and untitled essay in the Senate House Library manuscript collection. Using internal and contextual evidence, the articl…
Adam Ferguson and the Idea of Civil Society: Moral Science in the Scottish Enlightenment, by Craig Smith
Modern interpreters of Adam Ferguson have routinely commented on the apparent contradictions, or at least the mixture of motley and unstable elements, which supposedly characterise his thought. He
Adam Ferguson on the Perils of Popular Factions and Demagogues in a Roman Mirror
For the Scottish Enlightenment thinker Adam Ferguson (1723–1816) and many of his time, the history of the Roman Republic furnished the best case study for discussions of internal threats to a mixed system of government. These included factionalism, popular discontent, and the rise of demagogues seeking to concentrate power in their own hands. Ferguson has sometimes been interpreted as a ‘Machiavellian’ who celebrated the legacy of Rome and in par…
State of the Field: The History of Political Thought
This article surveys the state of the field of the history of political thought. The premise of the discipline is that political arguments and ideas have developed historically and thus have theoretical histories that can be located and traced. But, as our survey of the field shows, what counts as ‘context’ is up for debate, and contextual methods have become more sensitive to present‐day concerns. The border between the history of political thou…
‘This Revolution in the Town’: Richard Champion and the early years of the Bristol Library Society
This article explores the motivation of the founders of subscription libraries in the second half of the eighteenth century through the case study of Richard Champion, a Dissenter from a commercial background who was deeply immersed in the political and associational life of Bristol. Having been denied the opportunity to study at university, in setting up the Bristol Library Society in 1772 Champion was driven by a desire to acquire educational o…
The History of Political Thought and Parliamentary History in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
This review article considers the potentially fruitful relationship between the history of political thought and parliamentary history through a survey of recent books on Britain and France. Traditionally, this relationship has not been intimate, as the major historians of political thought have concentrated on linguistic and philosophical contexts, alongside political economy. However, as historians of political thought turn to concepts such as …
Edmund Burke, the French Revolution and the Battle for the Soul of the Whig Party
Edmund Burke split dramatically with Charles James Fox and his Whig connection after the outbreak of the French Revolution. In his Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791), Burke contended that he had not abandoned his party's principles and that it was the Foxite Whigs who had morphed into a new party. The article demonstrates that while Burke believed that the French Revolution rendered old party battles irrelevant to an extent, he did not l…
David Hume and the Jacobites
This article examines the connections between the Scottish Enlightenment thinker David Hume (1711–76) and the Jacobites. Many of his friendships with Jacobites are known, but they have rarely been explored in detail, perhaps because they sit uneasily with the now dominant interpretation of Hume as a whig. While he was frequently accused of Jacobitism in his lifetime, this article does not seek to revive the myth that he was committed to the cause…
Edmund Burke and the British Empire in the West Indies: Wealth, Power and Slavery, by P.J. Marshall
Edmund Burke and the British Empire in the West Indies: Wealth, Power and Slavery, by P.J. Marshall Edmund Burke and the British Empire in the West Indies: Wealth, Power and Slavery, by P.J. Marshall (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2019; pp. 243. £65). Max Skjönsberg Max Skjönsberg University of Liverpool, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 136, Is…
Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier, by D.W. Hayton
Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier, by D.W. Hayton Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier, by D.W. Hayton (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2019; pp. 472. £25). Max Skjönsberg Max Skjönsberg University of Liverpool, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 136, Issue 578, February 2021, Pages 241–243, https://doi.o…
Charles Francis Sheridan on the Feudal Origins and Political Science of the 1772 Revolution in Sweden
Gustav III's royal coup in 1772 reestablished strong monarchy and ended the Age of Liberty (Frihetstiden) in Sweden. The event attracted much interest and commentary across Europe. The most detailed account of the episode and sophisticated analysis of its causes was Charles Francis Sheridan's now forgotten History of the Late Revolution in Sweden (1778). Sheridan used Enlightenment history and political science to argue that the reasons for the S…
Catharine Macaulay: Political Writings: Political Writings
The writings of republican historian and political pamphleteer Catharine Macaulay (1731–91) played a central role in debates about political reform in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution. A critical reader of Hume's bestselling History of England, she broke new ground in historiography by defending the regicide of Charles I and became an inspiration for many luminaries of the American and French revolutions. While her historical and political…
Adam Ferguson’s Later Writings: New Letters and an Essay on the French Revolution
A critically introduced and edited collection of new letters and an essay by the philosopher Adam Ferguson Includes 36 new letters and one essay published for the first time and contextualised within Ferguson’s oeuvre Helps to fill in large gaps in Ferguson’s biography Presents new angles on major areas of study including the East India Company, the Regency Crisis, Scottish reactions to the French Revolution, and contemporary perceptions of Adam …
Patriots and the Country party tradition in the eighteenth century: The critics of Britain’s fiscal-military state from Robert Harley to Catharine Macaulay
The distinguished historian Steven Pincus has recently argued that “Patriotism” was a distinctive ideology in the middle of the eighteenth century that indicated “governmental activism” and support for “the British way of governing, grounded in the principles set forth in England’s Revolution of 1688–89.” By contrast, this essay shows that “Patriot” was more commonly used as a generic term for opposition politicians in eighteenth-century Britain.…
A Theory of the Enlightenment in Late Eighteenth-Century Sweden: Nils von Rosenstein and Scotland’s Science of Man and Politics
Nils von Rosenstein’s Försök til en afhandling om uplysningen, til dess beskaffenhet, nytta och nödvändighet för samhället (An Attempt at a Dissertation on the Enlightenment, its Character, Usefulness and Necessity for Society), published in 1793, presents an unusually comprehensive theory of ‘the Enlightenment’ (Upplysningen) from a contemporary of the period. This article explores the impact of Enlightenment ideas in late eighteenth-century Swe…
The Hume-Burke connection examined
This article examines the connection, personal and intellectual, between David Hume and Edmund Burke. Scholars have often compared the two thinkers, mainly in an unsystematic and selective way. Burke’s early biographers regarded them as opposite figures on account of Hume’s religious and philosophical scepticism and Burke’s devout Christian faith. By contrast, modern scholars often stress their intellectual kinship. More specifically, they have r…
Richard Champion and the Rockingham Whigs: The Aristocratic Politics of a Bristolian Quaker Merchant in the Age of the American Revolution
This article explores the political career and writings of Richard Champion (1743–1791), a Bristolian Quaker and merchant who acted as a local supporter and agent of the Rockingham Whigs. It aims to recover a forgotten aspect of Lewis Namier’s original ambition to understand eighteenth-century politics through the perspective of relatively ordinary people such as merchants and civil servants. However, against old Namierite assumptions, as well as…
Catharine Macaulay: Political Writings
Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain
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