Background
Miller, Peter N. was born on December 13, 1964 in New York City.
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This book discusses the crisis of the early modern state in eighteenth-century Britain and sets it in its European context. The American Revolution and the simultaneous demand for wider religious toleration at home challenged the principles of sovereignty and obligation that underpinned arguments about the character of the state. At stake was a fundamental challenge to the way in which politics was described. The Americans and their British supporters argued that individuals, by voting and thinking freely, ought to determine the "common good." These influential ideas continue to resonate today in the principles of "one man, one vote" and "freedom of thought."
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L'incoronazione di Poppea is the most compelling of all early Italian operas and this has, in part, been responsible for the way in which it has become separated from its social and historical context. In this book, Iain Fenlon and Peter Miller show how an understanding of contemporary Venetian intellectual currents and preoccupations provides a key to the structure of the opera's libretto, the progress of the action and the points of emphasis in both the music and the text.
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(The theme of this book is the crisis of the early modern ...)
The theme of this book is the crisis of the early modern state in eighteenth-century Britain. The revolt of the North American colonies and the simultaneous demand for wider religious toleration at home challenged the principles of sovereignty and obligation that underpinned arguments about the character of the state. These were expressed in terms of the 'common good', 'necessity', and 'community' - concepts that came to the fore in early modern European political thought and which gave expression to the problem of defining legitimate authority in a period of increasing consciousness of state power. The Americans and their British supporters argued that individuals ought to determine the common good of the community. A new theory of representation and freedom of thought defines the cutting edge of this revolutionary redefinition of the basic relationship between individual and community.
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Miller, Peter N. was born on December 13, 1964 in New York City.
Bachelor, Harvard College. Master of Arts, Harvard University. Doctor of Philosophy, University Cambridge.
Research fellow University Cambridge, 1990—1993. Mellon instructor in social science University Chicago, 1993—1996. Assistant professor University Maryland, 1998—2001.
Professor cultural history Bard Graduate Center, New York, since 2001, chair academic programs.
(L'incoronazione di Poppea is the most compelling of all e...)
(This book discusses the crisis of the early modern state ...)
(The theme of this book is the crisis of the early modern ...)