Download or read book Rethinking the Politics of Commercial Society written by Biancamaria Fontana and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-12-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the sources of modern political liberalism through a study of the Edinburgh Review, the most influential and controversial early nineteenth-century British periodical. Reveals how it served as the principal channel through which the Scottish Englightment and its doctrines of economic and political reform were popularized.