David Hume's six-volume History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 (1754-61) is probably his most important work as a constitutional historian and political theorist. Jia Wei's book shows that the History can be understood in two ways: firstly, as Hume's own narrative of England's state formation, and secondly, as his answer to the question of how eighteenth-century Britain could cope with the challenges of commercial revolution. It illuminates the relationship between Hume the political thinker, Hume the historian, and Hume the political economist and highlights the social, economic and institutional changes which he wove into an innovative theory of causation. The first part of the book considers Hume's account of the fundamental rationale of maritime trade and England's unique approach to liberty in the modern era. The second part looks at his views concerning the profound impact of maritime trade on English politics. From his perspective, the problem of how to cope with the challenges posed by the commercial revolution in eighteenth-century Britain was closely linked to the question of how transoceanic trade had fundamentally recast English politics from the sixteenth century onwards. This study shows how these two narratives were interwoven into Hume's History and will be of interest to scholars and students not only of David Hume and political theory but of historiography, eighteenth-century British history and Enlightenment studies.

Commerce and Politics in Hume's History of England (Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History)

History

维佳

Europe

Boydell Press

Metabonomics --- defined as the quantitative measurement of the multiparametric, time-related metabolic responses of a complex (multicellular) system to a pathophysiological intervention or genetic modification --- is an effective tool for toxicological studies, potential biomarker identification of diseases, and identification of regulatory network pathways in plants and animals. Metabonomics is discussed in detail in many applications such as drug development, disease treatment and modernization of traditional Chinese medicine. This book covers research on metabonomics, ranging from the development of specialized chemical analytical techniques to the construction of databases and methods for metabolic simulation.The authors have been directly involved in the development of all the subject areas, including gas chromatography, liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry, metabolic databases, and metabolic simulation. Basic definition, breakthrough achievements and the future of metabonomic studies are described, making this book a valuable source for researchers in metabonomics in diverse fields such as animal, cellular, microbial, pharmaceutical, medical, and life sciences.  Readership: Biochemists, chemists, pharmacists, toxicologists, TCM practitioners.

Metabonomics in Modern Health Sciences and Traditional Medicine

Science & Math

Zhu, Chen

Huiru Tang

Biological Sciences

World Scientific Publishing Company

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