Main Works By Adam Ferguson
- An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767)
- - Reprinted in 1995 with a new introduction by Louis Schneider. Transaction Publishers, London, 1995.
- The History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic (1783)
- Principles of Moral and Political Science; being chiefly a retrospect of lectures delivered in the College of Edinburgh (1792)
- Institutes of Moral Philosophy (1769)
- Reflections Previous to the Establishment of a Militia (1756)
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