1- The concept of a language and the métier d’historien: some considerations on practice --* J. G. A. Pocock Part I 2- The history of the word politicus in early-modern Europe --
Nicolai Rubinstein 3- Civil science in the Renaissance: the problem of interpretation -- Donald Kelley Civil 4- Dispossessing the barbarian: the language of Spanish Thomism and the debate over the property rights of the American Indians -- Anthony Pagden 5- The modern theory of natural law -- Richard Tuck Part II 6- Sir Thomas More´s Utopia and the language of Renaissance humanism -- Quentin Skinner 7- The concept of ordre and the language of classical republicanism in Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Maurizio Viroli 8- The language of seventeenth-century republicanism in the United Provinces: Dutch of European? -- Eco Haitsma Mulier 9- The civil religion of James Harrington -- Mark Goldie 10- Liberty, luxury and the pursuit of happiness -- M. M. Goldsmith 11- The language of sociability and commerce: Samuel Pufendorf and the theoretical foundations of the - Four-Stages Theory --
Intvan Hont 12- Da metafísico a mercatante: Antonio Genovesi and the development of a new language of commerce in eighteenth-century Naples Parte IV 13- The criticism of rhetorical historiography and the ideal of scientific method: histoey, nature and science in the political language of Thomas Hobbes -- Gigliola Rossini 14- Saint-Simon and the passage from political to social science -- Robert Wokler 15- Alexandre Hamilton and the language of political science --Judith N. Shklar