Johnson Kent Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 3963220 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johnson Kent Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johnson Kent |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1926 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Men on Horseback
The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
Volume I offers an introduction to the Enlightenment, which served as the shared background for virtually all revolutionary turmoil, and the American Revolution, which inaugurated the Age of Revolutions. Beginning with a thorough introduction, the volume covers international rivalry, the importance of slavery, and the reformist mind-set that prevailed on the eve of the revolutionary era. It addresses the traditional argument on whether the Enligh…
Rachel G. Fuchs (1939–2016)
Rachel Ginnis Fuchs, former editor of French Historical Studies and former president of the Society for French Historical Studies (SFHS), died on October 15, 2016, following a very short illness. Rachel had only just retired, after some thirty-two years of teaching at Arizona State University (ASU). But she had no intention of slackening the pace of her professional activities; besides, she missed students. So it was no surprise that she had acce…
A Rhetoric of Aristocratic Reaction? Nobility in de L’esprit des Lois
For all of the celebrity of De l'esprit des lois—commonly regarded as the most influential work of political thought of the French Enlightenment—the political stance of its author has always been a matter of dispute. The basic positions were established in a sharp exchange early in the last century, when Elie Carcassonne's portrait of Baron de Montesquieu as a liberal constitutionalist drew a blunt rejoinder from Albert Mathiez, who described him…
The Hard Birth of French Liberalism
Last year, Andreas Kalyvas and Ira Katznelson published a brief, bold book on a topic from which historians of political thought have tended to shy away, curiously enough—the relations between republicanism and liberalism as political ideologies in the age of the American and French Revolutions. Liberal Beginnings: Making a Republic for the Moderns is relentlessly polemical, blaming this neglect on the historians and theorists responsible for res…
Mably and Berne
The Swiss Cantons had no greater admirer in the eighteenth-century than the French political thinker Gabriel Bonnot de Mably. The feeling was mutual, at least to some extent, since the Bernese Patriotic Society awarded its first prize in 1763 to Mably, for his dialogue Entretiens de Phocion. The prize then led to an exchange of letters, stretching across some two decades, with Daniel Fellenberg, founder of the Patriotic society—the most important…
The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century
Forum Comment
Is there any work by a modern author that inspires the range of comparisons that Rousseau's Second Discourse does? Looking backward, the quartet of scholars writing above—leading figures of anglophone scholarship on Rousseau—finds echoes of the book of Genesis, the Histories of Tacitus, Ovid's Metamorphoses , and Pelagius. Others have been reminded of Lucretius and more than one of Plato's dialogues. Looking forward, the names of Hegel, Marx, and…
The Idea of a Republican Constitution in Old Régime France
France first became a republic on 21 September 1792, by declaration of the newly elected Convention. How and when did that event become possible, in the nation whose political culture had sponsored a cult of royal authority like no other in early-modern Europe? It is sometimes suggested that republicanism had no foothold in France prior to the royal family's attempted flight from the Revolution, halted at Varennes in June of 1791 – as if this abo…
Social Twists and Linguistic Turns
Mappemondes A. D. 1200-1500
Il Milione. Marco Polo , Luigi Foscolo Benedetto
La carte de Christophe Colomb
Die Kartenwissenschaft
La carte de Christophe Colomb
La carte de Christophe Colomb
Die Kartenwissenschaft
La carte de Christophe Colomb
Il Milione. Marco Polo , Luigi Foscolo Benedetto
Mappemondes A. D. 1200-1500
Social Twists and Linguistic Turns
The Idea of a Republican Constitution in Old Régime France
France first became a republic on 21 September 1792, by declaration of the newly elected Convention. How and when did that event become possible, in the nation whose political culture had sponsored a cult of royal authority like no other in early-modern Europe? It is sometimes suggested that republicanism had no foothold in France prior to the royal family's attempted flight from the Revolution, halted at Varennes in June of 1791 – as if this abo…
The French Nobility in the Eighteenth Century
Forum Comment
Is there any work by a modern author that inspires the range of comparisons that Rousseau's Second Discourse does? Looking backward, the quartet of scholars writing above—leading figures of anglophone scholarship on Rousseau—finds echoes of the book of Genesis, the Histories of Tacitus, Ovid's Metamorphoses , and Pelagius. Others have been reminded of Lucretius and more than one of Plato's dialogues. Looking forward, the names of Hegel, Marx, and…
Mably and Berne
The Swiss Cantons had no greater admirer in the eighteenth-century than the French political thinker Gabriel Bonnot de Mably. The feeling was mutual, at least to some extent, since the Bernese Patriotic Society awarded its first prize in 1763 to Mably, for his dialogue Entretiens de Phocion. The prize then led to an exchange of letters, stretching across some two decades, with Daniel Fellenberg, founder of the Patriotic society—the most important…
The Hard Birth of French Liberalism
Last year, Andreas Kalyvas and Ira Katznelson published a brief, bold book on a topic from which historians of political thought have tended to shy away, curiously enough—the relations between republicanism and liberalism as political ideologies in the age of the American and French Revolutions. Liberal Beginnings: Making a Republic for the Moderns is relentlessly polemical, blaming this neglect on the historians and theorists responsible for res…
Rachel G. Fuchs (1939–2016)
Rachel Ginnis Fuchs, former editor of French Historical Studies and former president of the Society for French Historical Studies (SFHS), died on October 15, 2016, following a very short illness. Rachel had only just retired, after some thirty-two years of teaching at Arizona State University (ASU). But she had no intention of slackening the pace of her professional activities; besides, she missed students. So it was no surprise that she had acce…
A Rhetoric of Aristocratic Reaction? Nobility in de L’esprit des Lois
For all of the celebrity of De l'esprit des lois—commonly regarded as the most influential work of political thought of the French Enlightenment—the political stance of its author has always been a matter of dispute. The basic positions were established in a sharp exchange early in the last century, when Elie Carcassonne's portrait of Baron de Montesquieu as a liberal constitutionalist drew a blunt rejoinder from Albert Mathiez, who described him…
The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
Volume I offers an introduction to the Enlightenment, which served as the shared background for virtually all revolutionary turmoil, and the American Revolution, which inaugurated the Age of Revolutions. Beginning with a thorough introduction, the volume covers international rivalry, the importance of slavery, and the reformist mind-set that prevailed on the eve of the revolutionary era. It addresses the traditional argument on whether the Enligh…
Men on Horseback
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