Critical Introduction to Henry Home’s Elements of Criticism

Albert D. Pionke The University of Alabama   The comprehensive index to the 33-volume Collected Works of John Stuart Mill records three references to eighteenth-century Scottish jurist and Enlightenment intellectual Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696-1782).  The first appears in one of seventeen-year-old Mill’s very first publications, a letter to the editor of the Morning Chronicle […]

Critical Introduction to Alexis de Tocqueville’s De la Démocratie en Amérique

Albert D. Pionke The University of Alabama   The period from 1836 to 1840, when Mill was the de facto editor of and frequent contributor to the London and Westminster Review, came at a crucial point in his personal and intellectual development.  During these years, Mill came to grips with the death of his father, […]

Critical Introduction to George Grote’s History of Greece Volumes 1 and 2

General Introduction Albert D. Pionke The University of Alabama   At twelve volumes and over 7000 pages, George Grote’s History of Greece is the longest and physically bulkiest work in the John Stuart Mill Library, “the largest ever to appear on the subject in English by a single author,” and “one of the chief monuments […]

Critical Introduction to George Grote’s History of Greece Volumes 3 and 4

General Introduction Albert D. Pionke The University of Alabama   At twelve volumes and over 7000 pages, George Grote’s History of Greece is the longest and physically bulkiest work in the John Stuart Mill Library, “the largest ever to appear on the subject in English by a single author,” and “one of the chief monuments […]

Critical Introduction to George Grote’s History of Greece Volumes 5 and 6

General Introduction Albert D. Pionke The University of Alabama   At twelve volumes and over 7000 pages, George Grote’s History of Greece is the longest and physically bulkiest work in the John Stuart Mill Library, “the largest ever to appear on the subject in English by a single author,” and “one of the chief monuments […]

Critical Introduction to George Grote’s History of Greece Volumes 7 and 8

General Introduction Albert D. Pionke The University of Alabama   At twelve volumes and over 7000 pages, George Grote’s History of Greece is the longest and physically bulkiest work in the John Stuart Mill Library, “the largest ever to appear on the subject in English by a single author,” and “one of the chief monuments […]

Critical Introduction to George Grote’s History of Greece Volumes 9 through 12

General Introduction  Albert D. Pionke  The University of Alabama    At twelve volumes and over 7000 pages, George Grote’s History of Greece is the longest and physically bulkiest work in the John Stuart Mill Library, “the largest ever to appear on the subject in English by a single author,” and “one of the chief monuments […]

Critical Introduction to Thomas Carlyle’s Latter-Day Pamphlets

Albert D. Pionke The University of Alabama   The owner of over 1000 miles of track laid during the 1840s railway boom, George Hudson, crowned the “Railway King,” was remembered by his Times obituarist as “a man who united largeness of view with wonderful speculative courage,” who “took away people’s breath at first, but . […]