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Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION -- LIST OF 'THINKER' BOXES -- INTRODUCTION -- Periodisation -- The focus of the book -- Western political thinking: A brief overview -- Themes -- PART I THE ENDS OF POLITICS -- 1 POLITICS AND VIRTUE -- Cooperative order in ancient political theory: Protagoras, Democritus, Plato and Aristotle -- Negative and positive conceptions of order in medieval political theory: St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas -- Order and sovereignty in early modern political theory: Bodin, Grotius and Hobbes -- Cooperation and order in modern political theory: Rousseau, Kant and Green -- Order, authoritarianism and totalitarianism in modern political theory: Carlyle, Maurras, Mussolini and Hitler -- Order without politics: Anarchism and Marxism -- Conclusion -- 2 POLITICS AND VIRTUE -- Politics and virtue in ancient political theory: Plato and Aristotle -- Virtue, politics and Christianity: Aquinas, Machiavelli, Luther, Calvin and Radical Protestantism -- Virtue, perfection and freedom: Kant and the British idealists -- Conclusion -- 3 POLITICS AND FREEDOM -- Freedom and politics in the classical republican tradition: Marsilius, Bartolus and Machiavelli -- Politics and 'natural' liberty: Locke, Paine, J. S. Mill -- Gender and freedom: Olympe de Gouges, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Thompson and Anna Wheeler, and Harriet Taylor -- Black emancipation: Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois -- Conclusion -- 4 FREEDOM, POLITICS AND SOCIABILITY -- Freedom, sociability and the state: Rousseau, Hegel and Green -- Social freedom and the critique of state theory: Marx -- Freedom and anarchy: Godwin, Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Stirner, Warren and Tucker -- Conclusion -- 5 POLITICS, HAPPINESS AND WELFARE -- Early utilitarianism: Paley, Saint-Pierre, Hume, Helvetius and Beccaria.

"During the French wars (1793-1801, 1803-1815) the system of promotion to flag rank in the Royal Navy produced a cadre of admirals numbering more than two hundred at its peak. These officers competed vigorously for a limited number of appointments at sea and for the high honours and significant financial rewards open to successful naval commanders. When on active service admirals faced formidable challenges arising from the Navy's critical role in a global conflict, from the extraordinary scope of their responsibilities, and from intense political, public and professional expectations. While a great deal has been written about admirals' roles in naval operations, other aspects of their professional lives have not been explored systematically. British Flag Officers in the French Wars, 1793-1815 considers the professional lives of well-known and more obscure admirals, vice-admirals and rear-admirals. It examines the demands of naval command, flag officers' understanding of their authority and their approach to exercising it, their ambitions and failures, their professional interactions, and their lives afloat and onshore. In exploring these themes, it draws on a wide range of correspondence and other primary source material. By taking a broad thematic approach, this book provides a multi-faceted account of admirals' professional lives that extends beyond the insights that are found in biographical studies of individual flag officers. As such, it will be of great interest to students and scholars of British naval history."--Bloomsbury Publishing