This major work of academic reference provides the first comprehensive survey of political thought in Europe, North America and Asia in the century following the French Revolution. Written by a distinguished team of international scholars, this Cambridge History is the latest in a sequence of volumes firmly established as the principal reference source for the history of political thought. In a series of scholarly but accessible essays, every major theme in nineteenth-century political thought is covered, including political economy, religion, democratic radicalism, nationalism, socialism and feminism. The volume also includes studies of major figures, including Hegel, Mill, Bentham and Marx, and biographical notes on every significant thinker in the period. Of interest to students and scholars of politics and history at all levels, this volume explores seismic changes in the languages and expectations of politics accompanying political revolution, industrialisation and imperial expansion and less-noted continuities in political and social thinking.

19世紀という激動の時代を、人類の知性が火花を散らした巨大な精神のドラマとして描き出す比類なき名著です。フランス革命の衝撃から産業化の荒波まで、現代を形作る自由や国家の概念が、いかにして「生きた言葉」へと鍛えられたのか。その壮絶な知的格闘の痕跡が、叙事詩のような圧倒的な密度で綴られています。 ヘーゲルやマルクスら知の巨星たちの思索が、一つの巨大な潮流として結実する様は圧巻です。単なる知識の集成を超え、現代社会の深層を射抜く本書は、私たちの思考を根源から揺さぶる「知の地図」に他なりません。歴史の歯車を動かした思想の熱量を、ぜひその手で確かめてください。