TY - JOUR
AU - Shklar, Judith N.
AB - Modern Europe work very well. Never mind that, however. Academy of Sciences in Paris dominated the Like many another history, this one is better world of science to a degree that no other na­ than its theoretical argument, and no historian tional institution has since done or had ever but grat­ done. Professor Hahn has now devoted to it working in this field can feel anything itude and admiration for the ingenuity and the most sophisticated history of a scientific in­ generosity with which the bibliographical ap­ stitution to have been written since the fa­ paratus gives access to the literature. mous Geschichte der koniglich preussischen CHARLES C. GILLISPIE Akademie der Wissenschaiten zu Berlin (1900). Princeton University Unlike Harnack, who, in the classic tradition of Ideengeschichte, organized his account around the scientific and scholarly work pro­ HENRY J. MERRY. Montesquieu's System of Nat­ ural Government. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue duced in the Berlin Academy, Hahn writes in University Studies. 1970. Pp. xvi, 414. $8.50. the current mode of social history and tells of the Paris Academy relative to the society Marx once said that Sir James Steuart had a around it rather than to the content of science, and 
TI - Henry J. Merry. Montesquieu's System of Natural Government. West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Studies. 1970. Pp. xvi, 414. $8.50
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr/77.4.1131
DA - 1972-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/henry-j-merry-montesquieu-s-system-of-natural-government-west-zSZj423AXP
SP - 1131
EP - 1132
VL - 77
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -