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Commonwealth principles : republican writing of the English revolution /

Main Author: Scott, Jonathan, 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
English prose literature > History and criticism. > Early modern, 1500-1700
Politics and literature > History > 17th century. > Great Britain
Political science > History > 17th century. > Great Britain
Republicanism > History > 17th century. > Great Britain
Radicalism > History > 17th century. > Great Britain
HISTORY.
English prose literature > Early modern.
Historiography.
Political science.
Politics and literature.
Radicalism.
Puriteinen.
Great Britain > History > Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 > Historiography.
Great Britain > History > Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 > Historiography.
Great Britain > History > Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 > Sources.
Great Britain > History > Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660 > Sources.
Great Britain.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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