Daved Hume is commonly known as one of the greatest philosophers to write in lish.He was also one of the foremost political and economic theorists and one of the finest historians of the eighteenth century.His political essays reflect the entire range of his intellectual engagement with politics-as political philosophy,political observation and political history-and function as anextension fo and supplement to works such as his Treatise of Human Nature and his History of England.The twenty-seven most important essays are presented in this fully nnotated

edition,together with excerpts from the History of Emgland which point up their context.This major addition to the Cambridge Texts in the History of political Thought will be of interest to students and scholars of politics,philosophy and the history of ideas.