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Journal of the History of Ideas
Volume 71, Number 2 (April 2010)
CONTENTS
“Musical References in Brucioli’s Dialogi and Their Classical and Medieval Antecedents” ANTHONY M. CUMMINGS
“Baroque Optics and the Disappearance of the Observer: From Kepler’s Optics to Descartes’ Doubt” OFER GAL and RAZ CHEN-MORRIS
“One Concept of Liberty: Towards Writing the History of a Political Concept” EFRAIM PODOKSIK
“Innocence of Experience: Rousseau on Puberty in the State of Civilization” MARY K. MCALPIN
“A Scottish Jacobin: John Oswald on Commerce and Citizenship” ANNA PLASSART
“Theorist at Work: Talcott Parsons and the Carnegie Project on Theory, 1949-1951” JOEL T. ISAAC
Review Essay: “The Recent Boom in Shanghai Studies” JOSHUA A. FOGEL