Relational history: Adam Smith's types of human history
Adam Smith writes history to teach people how a plurality of forces informs our moral and economic actions. He employs the stadial theory-prevalent in his day-to explore four different states, or kinds of society, but he does not intend to use these to write a simple, linear history of the 'sta...
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EIPE, Erasmus University Rotterdam
2019
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