The Spirit of Laws

The Spirit of Laws

A Compendium of the First English Edition

by Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, Charles-Louis De Montesquieu

516 pages· 1977· ISBN 9780520034556
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Montesquieu's The Spirit of Laws is an enduring classic of social and political theory deserving a fresh reading every generation. The modern reader, however, is likely to find a work that ran to over a thousand pages in its two-volume first edition a bit overwhelming. Presented here, therefore, is the first English-language compendium of The Spirit of Laws, together with the first English translation of the posthumously published treatise containing the physiological theory underlying Montesquieu's theory of climate.

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