Hume: History of England
This is a Reading List based upon a Liberty Fund Conference on “Essaying Liberty in Hume’s History of England in the Reigns of James I and Charles I.”
Essaying Liberty in Hume's History of England in the Reigns of James I and Charles I
Guide to the Readings
Editions used:
- David Hume, Essays Moral, Political, Literary, edited and with a Foreword, Notes, and Glossary by Eugene F. Miller, with an appendix of variant readings from the 1889 edition by T.H. Green and T.H. Grose, revised edition (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund 1987).
- David Hume, The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688, Foreword by William B. Todd, 6 vols. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund 1983). Vol. 5.
See also in the Online Library of Liberty:
- Collections: The English Civil War
- Collections: History
- Collections: The Scottish Enlightenment
For additional reading see:
Session I: Of Essays and Histories
David Hume, Essays Moral, Political, Literary.
Session II: Superstition and Enthusiasm in England
David Hume, Essays Moral, Political, Literary.
David Hume, The History of England, Vol. V
Session III: Of Politics and Parties in England
David Hume, Essays Moral, Political, Literary.
- “Whether the British Government Inclines More to Absolute Monarchy, Or to a Republic”
- “Of Parties in General”
- “Of the Parties in Great Britain”
David Hume, The History of England, Vol. V
Session IV: Of Principles and Practice in English Constitutional History
David Hume, Essays Moral, Political, Literary.
David Hume, The History of England, Vol. V
Session V: Between Authority and Liberty in English Government
David Hume, Essays Moral, Political, Literary.
David Hume, The History of England, Vol. V
Session VI: Real Whig or Old Tory
David Hume, The History of England, Vol. V
Jefferson's Letters
- “Thomas Jefferson to William Duane, August 12, 1810.”
Reading Lists
- Addison and Smith: Freedom and Responsibility
- American Liberty in Political Documents before 1787
- An Introduction to the Major Writings of Ludwig von Mises
- Banned Books
- British and French Sources of American Constitutionalism
- Burlamaqui, Bayle: Freedom Tolerance, Natural Law
- Cato’s Letters: Liberty and Responsibility
- Cobden: Liberty and Peace
- Constant’s Principles of Politics
- Emerson on Anti-slavery
- Eric Mack, An Introduction to the Political Thought of John Locke
- Gibbon and the Rise of Christianity and Islam
- Homer’s Iliad: Liberty and Responsibility
- Hume, Smith, and Ferguson: Wealth, Commerce, and Corruption
- Hume: History of England
- James Tyrrell on Authority and Liberty
- Jefferson-Hamilton Debate
- John Milton: Liberty in his Prose and Poetry
- Major Political Thinkers: Plato to Mill
- Mandeville: Vice, Virtue and Liberty
- Mill-Macaulay Debate on Government
- Old Testament and English Political Thought
- Political Sermons of the Founding Era
- Readings from the OLL Reader
- Rousseau and Hume: Contrasting Views of Liberty
- Shakespeare and Marlowe: Liberty in Four Plays
- Shakespeare: Liberty and Responsibility
- Socialist Tracts
- Sophocles and Aeschylus: Blood Justice and the Founding of Legal Order
- Tacitus: Liberty and Tyranny in the Annals
- The Ruling Class and the State: An Anthology
- Thomas Paine and American Liberty
- Thucydides: War, Empire, and Liberty