James Mackintosh: 5 books

Vindiciae Gallicae was James Mackintosh’s first major publication, a contribution to the debate begun by Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France. The success of Mackintosh’s defense of the French Revolution propelled him into the heart of London Whig circles. Following the September...

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Extrait : "L'histoire, a dit Bâcon, est naturelle, civile, ecclésiastique ou littéraire. J'avoue que les trois premières parties existent ; mais je note la quatrième comme nous manquant tout à fait. Car aucun homme ne s'est encore proposé de faire l'inventaire de la science ; aucun n'a décrit...

The third in a series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories appeared in magazines from the Edinburgh Review to Granta, in anthologies from various publishers, and in authors’ own...

Two Arabic Travel Books combines two exceptional exemplars of Arabic travel writing, penned in the same era but chronicling wildly divergent experiences. Accounts of China and India is a compilation of reports and anecdotes on the lands and peoples of the Indian Ocean, from the Somali headlands to...