Studies in the History of Political Thought

Terence Ball (Ph.D University of California, Berkeley) was formerly Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota and now teaches political theory at Arizona State University. His books include Transforming Political Discourse: Political Theory and Critical Conceptual History (1988), Reappraising Political Theory: Revisionist Studies in the History of Political Thought (1995), and a mystery novel, Rousseau's Ghost (1998).

Jörn Leonhard (PhD. Heidelberg 1998, Habilitation Heidelberg 2004) is Full Professor for Modern European History at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiberg in Germany. He is one of the Founding Directors of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (School of History). He has published widely on comparative European history and historical semantics. His monographs include Liberalismus – Zur historischen Semantik eines europäischen Deutungsmusters (Munich 2001) and recently Bellizismus und Nation. Kriegsdeutung und Nationsbestimmung in Europa und den Vereinigten Staaten 1750-1914 (Munich 2008).

Wyger Velema (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University) is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on the history of eighteenth-century political thought, most recently Republicans: Essays on Eighteenth-Century Dutch Political Thought (2007).

Edited by
Terence Ball, Arizona State University
Jörn Leonhard, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Wyger Velema, University of Amsterdam

Advisory Board
Janet Coleman, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Vittor Ivo Comparato, University of Perugia, Italy
Jacques Guilhaumou, CNRS, France
John Marshall, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Markku Peltonen, University of Helsinki, Finland

This series is primarily aimed at a broad academic audience in the humanities and the social sciences, including historians, political scientists and philosophers, and at academic libraries.