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Key Issues
Contemporary Responses to Major Debates

Series Editor: Andrew Pyle

The Key Issues series makes available the contemporary reactions that met important books and debates on their first appearance. Examining the range of contemporary literature - journal articles and reviews, book extracts, public letters, sermons and pamphlets - Key Issues gives the reader an essential insight into the historical, social, and political context in which a key publication or particular topic emerged. Each text contains an introduction to supply the necessary historical background.
Agnosticism: Contemporary Responses to
Spencer and Huxley

Edited by Andrew Pyle

Empire and Imperialism:
The Debate of the 1870s

Edited and introduced by Peter Cain

Free Trade:
The Repeal of the Corn Laws

Edited by Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey

Gender and Science: Late Nineteenth-Century Debates on the Female Mind and Body

Edited and introduced by Katharina Rowold

Group Rights:
Perspectives since 1900

Edited and introduced by Julia Stapleton

Herbert Spencer and Limits of the State: Contemporary Responses to Spencer’s The Man Versus the State

Edited and introduced by Michael Taylor

Hume on Miracles

Edited and introduced by Stanley Tweyman

Hume on Natural Religion

Edited and introduced by Stanley Tweyman

John Locke and Christianity

Edited and introduced by Victor Nuovo

Keynes:
Contemporary Responses to the General Theory

Edited and introduced by Roger E. Backhouse

 
Liberty
Contemporary Responses to John Stuart Mill

Edited by Andrew Pyle

Mill and Religion:
Contemporary Responses to Three Essays on Religion

Edited and introduced by Alan P. F. Sell

On the Wealth of Nations:
Contemporary Responses to Adam Smith

Edited and introduced by Ian S. Ross


The Origin of Language
Edited and introduced by Roy Harris


Population:
Contemporary Responses to Thomas Malthus

Edited and introduced by Andrew Pyle


Pure Experience: The Response to William James
Edited and introduced by Eugene Taylor
and Robert H. Wozniak


Race: The Origins of an Idea, 1760–1850
Edited and introduced by Hannah Augstein

Religious Scepticism:
Contemporary Responses to Gibbon

Edited and introduced by David Womersley


The Subjection of Women:
Contemporary Responses to John Stuart Mill

Edited and introduced by Andrew Pyle