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Quentin Skinner

Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner (born 26 November 1940) is a British intellectual historian. He is regarded as one of the founders of the Cambridge School of the history of political thought. He has won numerous prizes for his work, including the Wolfson History Prize in 1979 and the Balzan Prize in 2006. Between 1996 and 2008 he was Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge. He is the Emeritus Professor of the Humanities and Co-director of The Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought at Queen Mary University of London.

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Freedom and the Construction of Europe

by Quentin Skinner and Martin van Gelderen First published in 2013 — 10 editions

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Visions of Politics, Vol. 2: Renaissance Virtues

by Quentin Skinner First published in 2002 — 7 editions

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Sovereignty in fragments: the past, present and future of a contested concept

by Hent Kalmo and Quentin Skinner First published in 2010 — 7 editions

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Machiavelli

by Quentin Skinner First published in 1981 — 7 editions
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Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage

by Martin van Gelderen and Quentin Skinner First published in 2002 — 7 editions

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Visions of Politics, Vol. 3: Hobbes and Civil Science

by Quentin Skinner First published in 2002 — 6 editions

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Visions of Politics, Vol. 1: Regarding Method

by Quentin Skinner First published in 2002 — 6 editions

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The foundations of modern political thought

by Quentin Skinner First published in 1978 — 6 editions

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Cicero: on the Commonwealth and on the Laws

by Cicero, James E. G. Zetzel, Raymond Geuss, and Quentin Skinner First published in 1999 — 5 editions

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Machiavelli and Republicanism (Ideas in Context)

by Gisela Bock and Quentin Skinner First published in 1993 — 5 editions

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Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective

by Richard Bourke and Quentin Skinner First published in 2016 — 4 editions

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Los fundamentos del pensamiento político moderno, I: El Renacimiento

by Quentin Skinner First published in 1978 — 4 editions
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The Return of grand theory in the human sciences

by Quentin Skinner First published in 1985 — 4 editions

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Families and States in Western Europe

by Quentin Skinner First published in 2011 — 3 editions

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History in the Humanities and Social Sciences

by Richard Bourke and Quentin Skinner First published in 2022 — 3 editions

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Republicanism: a shared European heritage : Republicanism and constitutionalism in early modern Europe

by Martin van Gelderen and Quentin Skinner First published in 2002 — 3 editions

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Liberty Before Liberalism

by Quentin Skinner First published in 1997 — 3 editions

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Political discourse in early modern Britain

by Nicholas Phillipson, Quentin Skinner, Lorraine Daston, and Dorothy Ross First published in 1993 — 3 editions

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Milton and republicanism

by Armitage, David, Armand Himy, and Quentin Skinner First published in 1998 — 3 editions

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Philosophy in History: Essays in the Historiography of Philosophy

by Richard Rorty, Jerome B. Schneewind, and Quentin Skinner First published in 2009 — 2 editions

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British historian

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OLID: OL398868A
ISNI: 0000000108894596
IMDb: nm11652588
Library of Congress Names: n81055367
SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): CFIV058370
VIAF: 39393791
Wikidata: Q465807
Inventaire.io: wd:Q465807

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