The Political Thought Of The English Free State 1649 1653

Author : Markku Peltonen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009212044
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Thought of the English Free State, 1649–1653 written by Markku Peltonen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a provocative reassessment of the English Revolution and an original new perspective on English republicanism, drawing on a wide range of sources, including the vast political pamphlet literature of the era. The book also highlights the unprecedented debate over whether the free state was an aristocracy or democracy.

Author : Sean Kelsey
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719050572
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing a Republic written by Sean Kelsey and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The character and appearance of English governance were changed utterly in 1649, when Charles I was executed and the monarchy abolished. At a stroke, legitimate authority in the nation was stripped of the charismatic focus from whence it had derived much of its apparently ageless dignity. This volume provides a study of how England's political culture was reinvented by the new parliamentary republic. It describes how government members colonized and revived the abandoned royal palace at Whitehall, and describes the imaginative and consistently iconographic and ceremonial languages with which they replaced the imagery and spectacle of the monarchy. It makes a case for the comprehensive revision of the historio-graphical preconceptions surrounding England's only lengthy period of kinglessness.

Author : Blair Worden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191624411
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God's Instruments written by Blair Worden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Puritan Revolution escaped the control of its creators. The parliamentarians who went to war with Charles I in 1642 did not want or expect the fundamental changes that would follow seven years later: the trial and execution of the king, the abolition of the House of Lords, and the creation of the only republic in English history. There were startling and unexpected developments, too, in religion and ideas: the spread of unorthodox doctrines; the attainment of a wide measure of liberty of conscience; and new thinking about the moral and intellectual bases of politics and society. God's Instruments centres on the principal instrument of radical change, Oliver Cromwell, and on the unfamiliar landscape of the decade he dominated, from the abolition of the monarchy in 1649 to the return of the Stuart dynasty in 1660. Its theme is the relationship between the beliefs or convictions of politicians and their decisions and actions. Blair Worden explores the biblical dimension of Puritan politics; the ways that a belief in the workings of divine providence affected political conduct; Cromwell's commitment to liberty of conscience and his search for godly reformation through educational reform; the constitutional premises of his rule and those of his opponents in the struggle for supremacy between parliamentary and military rule; and the relationship between conceptions of civil and religious liberty. The conflicts Worden reconstructs are placed in the perspective of long-term developments, of which many historians have lost sight. The final chapters turn to the guiding convictions of two writers at the heart of politics, John Milton and the royalist Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon. Material from previously published essays, much of it expanded and extensively revised, comes together with newly written chapters to bring fresh evidence and argument to a period of lively debate and interest.

Author : James Harrington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521423298
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harrington: 'The Commonwealth of Oceana' and 'A System of Politics' written by James Harrington and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-08-20 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Harrington's brief career as a political and historical theorist spans the last years of the Cromwellian Protectorate and the Restoration of 1660. This volume comprises the first and last of Harrington's writings. Harrington was the first theorist to interpret the English Civil Wars as a revolution, the result of a long-term process of social change which led to the decay of the old political order. The Commonwealth of Oceana (1656) is a fictionalised presentation of English history up to the victory of the New Model Army, explaining the fall of the monarchy and proposing a republic to replace it. A System of Politics, written after the Restoration, is a scheme of history and political philosophy erected on the foundations of his previous works. Professor Pocock's introduction emphasises Harrington's place as a pivotal figure in the history of English political thought. This edition also contains a chronology of events in Harrington's life and a guide to further reading.

Author : Cesare Cuttica
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900440662X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Anti-Democracy in Early Modern England 1603–1689 written by Cesare Cuttica and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a new and cross-disciplinary approach to the study of democratic ideas and practices in early modern England.

Author : J. G. A. Pocock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521574983
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500-1800 written by J. G. A. Pocock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of political debate and theory in England (later Britain) between the English Reformation and French Revolution.

Author : Emma Claussen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108844170
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and ‘Politiques' in Sixteenth-Century France written by Emma Claussen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores conceptions of politics in early modern France, and the controversies the word 'politique' attracted during the Wars of Religion.

Author : John William Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Political Thought 1603-1660 written by John William Allen and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Scott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139456709
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commonwealth Principles written by Jonathan Scott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-18 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The republican writing of the English revolution has attracted a major scholarly literature. Yet there has been no single treatment of the subject as a whole, nor has it been adequately related to the larger upheaval from which it emerged, or to the larger body of radical thought of which it became the most influential component. Commonwealth Principles addresses these needs, and Jonathan Scott goes beyond existing accounts organized around a single key concept (whether constitutional, linguistic or moral) or author (usually James Harrington) to analyse this body of writing in full context. Linking various social, political and intellectual agendas Professor Scott explains why, when classical republicanism came to England, it did so in the moral service of an explicitly religious revolution. The resulting ideology hinged not upon political language, or constitutional form, but Christian humanist moral philosophy applied in the practical context of an attempted radical reformation of manners.

Author : John William Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Political Thought, 1603-1660 written by John William Allen and published by . This book was released on 1644 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: