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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-279) and indexes
Acknowledgements; A Comparative Perspective on Conceptual History -- An Introduction; Part I Theoretical And Comparative Frameworks; Chapter 1 The Historiography of German Begriffsgeschichte and the Dutch Project of Conceptual History; Chapter 2 Social History and Begriffsgeschichte; Chapter 3 Speech Acts, Languages or Conceptual History?; Chapter 4 Concept -- Meaning -- Discourse. Begriffsgeschichte Reconsidered; Part II Themes And Variations; Chapter 5 The Origin and the Meaning of the Reason of State; Chapter 6 Conceptual History and the History of Political Thought
First introduction to an english-speaking audience of a field of research booming in continental Europe
