Commonwealth principles : republican writing of the English revolution, Jonathan Scott

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Commonwealth principles : republican writing of the English revolution, Jonathan Scott

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republican writing of the English revolution

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Jonathan Scott

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• Commonwealth principles : republican writing of the English revolution

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• Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: English republicanism -- Historiography -- Long-term contexts: intellectual and practical -- Intellectual content: ends and means -- Ideas and events: the impact of the republican experiment in practice -- Part I Contexts -- Chapter 1 Classical republicanism -- 'Classical republicanism' -- Commonwealth principles -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 The cause of God -- Introduction -- Christian humanism -- Anti-popery, anti-clericalism, liberty of conscience -- Reformation of manners -- Theology -- Enlightenment -- Chapter 3 Discourses of a commonwealth -- The english commonwealth -- The military-fiscal state -- The social state -- Discourses of a commonwealth -- Chapter 4 Old worlds and new -- Introduction: the question of modernity -- The context of time -- Political economy -- The context of space -- Part II Analysis -- Chapter 5 The political theory of rebellion -- Introduction: the law of war -- Milton and nedham -- Streater and sexby -- Harrington and neville -- Restoration, 1660-1680 -- Sidney's discourses -- Chapter 6 Constitutions -- Introduction: the empire of laws and not of men -- Popular unicameralism, 1623-1654 -- The mixed constitution, 1653-1658 -- The mariners and the ship, 1659-1660 -- Restoration -- Chapter 7 Liberty -- Introduction -- Milton -- Nedham -- Streater and vane -- Harrington -- Sidney -- Chapter 8 Virtue -- Milton and plato -- Nedham and machiavelli -- Streater and aristotle -- Harrington -- 'Cleave, saw and cut:' sidney, vane and the rhetoric of puritan magistracy -- Chapter 9 The politics of time -- The politics of the ancient constitution -- The politics of change -- Chapter 10 Empire -- Introduction -- Milton and the empire of the self -- Nedham, streater, harrington -- Sidney and neville -- Part III Chronology -- Chapter 11 Republicans and Levellers, 1603-1649 -- 1603-1641: commonwealth principles and practice -- 'Two and fifty degrees of northern latitude' -- Tribune of the plebs -- The political theory of the english revolution -- Chapter 12 The English republic, 1649-1653 -- 'A new order in the state'? -- The struggle for survival, 1649-1651 -- A republic for expansion, 1651-1653 -- Dissolution -- Chapter 13 Healing and settling, 1653-1658 -- Republican compliment -- Republican criticism -- Harrington's 'model' for healing and settling -- Chapter 14 The good old cause, 1658-1660 -- The republican moment, 1659-1660 -- The fall of the protectorate, september 1658-april 1659 -- Restoration of the rump, may-september 1659 -- 'Anarchy', october 1659-april 1660 -- Chapter 15 Anatomies of tyranny, 1660-1683 -- Introduction -- Analyses of failure -- Anatomies of tyranny -- Chapter 16 Republicans and Whigs, 1680-1725 -- The question of parliaments, 1681-1683 -- A monarchical republic? -- Conclusion: the anglo-dutch achievement -- Appendix: 'a pretty story of horses' (May 1654) -- Bibliogr

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1 online resource (xii, 402 pages)

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9781280749759

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2004045709

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(OCoLC)229991297