Der Geist der Gesetze: Ein Kompendium der ersten englischen Ausgabe

Author/Contributor(s):	Montesquieu
Publisher:	University of California Press
Date:	12/28/1977
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Montesquieu's The Spirit of Laws is an enduring classic of social and political theory deserving a fresh reading every generation. The modern reader, however, is likely to find a work that ran to over a thousand pages in its two-volume first edition a bit overwhelming. Presented here, therefore, is the first English-language compendium of The Spirit of Laws, together with the first English translation of the posthumously published treatise containing the physiological theory underlying Montesquieu's theory of climate.