Commentary

• “The development of the idea of citizens’ rights.”

  - Annabel Brett, “The development of the idea of citizens’ rights,” in States and Citizens: History, Theory, Prospects, eds. Q. Skinner and B. Stråth. Cambridge University Press: 97-112., 2003.
  Overview: States and Citizens offers a coherent survey of perceptions of the state, its history, its theoretical underpinnings, and its prospects in the contemporary world. The coverage of the Western European experience is thorough and wide-ranging, with the… More

• Thinking about Property: From Antiquity to the Age of Revolution.

  - Peter Garnsey, Thinking about Property: From Antiquity to the Age of Revolution. Cambridge, 2007.
  Overview: –  Explores ancient ‘foundational’ texts relating to property and their reception by later thinkers in their various contexts up to the early nineteenth century. The texts include Plato’s vision of an ideal polity in the… More