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Author : J. G. A. Pocock,Gordon J. Schochet,Lois Schwoerer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0521574986
A history of political debate and theory in England (later Britain) between the English Reformation and French Revolution.
Author : David Armitage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139461177
The history of British political thought has been one of the most fertile fields of Anglo-American historical writing in the last half-century. David Armitage brings together an interdisciplinary and international team of authors to consider the impact of this scholarship on the study of early modern British history, English literature, and political theory. Leading historians survey the impact of the history of political thought on the 'new' histories of Britain and Ireland; eminent literary scholars offer novel critical methods attentive to literary form, genre, and language; and distinguished political theorists treat the relationship of history and theory in studies of rights and privacy. The outstanding examples of critical practice collected here will encourage the emergence of fresh research on the historical, critical, and theoretical study of the English-speaking world in the period around 1500–1800. This volume celebrates the contribution of the Folger Institute to British studies over many years.
Author : J. W. Allen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000704716
First published in 1938. A study of the political doctrines and events which led to a hardening of lines between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians. "From the March of 1604, when James I met his first Parliament to the assembly of the Long Parliament in November 1640, there was going on a conflict between irreconcilable views concerning the constitution of government in England. It was concerned with what had been and with what was and, necessarily, with what should be." By 1640 the question soon would be "how stable government could ever again be established . . . But the confusion, if it produced little else of value, produced a ferment of thought." And this ferment has had an incalculable effect on the centuries which have followed. Among the many topics discussed, on the basis of firm knowledge and with reasonableness, are the King and the nature of his claim, the parliamentary opposition and its conceptions and the possibility of compromise, the approach to Toleration, Puritanism and the Laudian Church, and the final collapse of government.
Author : Cary J. Nederman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:49015002975945
All of these treatises offer important insight into such matters as the extent of the king's power in the fourteenth century and earlier, the relationship between church and state, and the particular duties of the ruler toward various of his subjects."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Glenn Burgess
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137087973
Focusing on the interaction of religion and politics, this is a comprehensive chronological survey of the political thought of post-Reformation Britain which examines the work of a wide range of thinkers.
Author : Jonathan Mendilow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000706642
First published in 1986. It is often suggested that the great first generation of Romantics, after the first flush of their revolutionary enthusiasm, ‘sold out’ to the forces of conservatism and reaction. This book starts from the thesis that the ideas of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey did always contain powerful radical and reformist implications that set the tone of liberal and left-wing discussion for several generations. The message of the French Revolution and Wordsworth’s youthful enthusiasm continued to imbue the thought of Carlyle, and his disciples Ruskin and Kingsley, and its characteristic articulations are still visible in later socialists such as Keir Hardie and Blatchford. This thoughtful book not only shows how surprising are the original roots of some great socialist thinkers, but also argues for a strong continuity in the English tradition of political thought from the 1780s to the early years of the twentieth century. Both students of politics and of literature and Victorian ideas will be stimulated by The Romantic Tradition in British Political Thought.
Author : Geoff Kennedy
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0739123742
"This book situates the development of radical English political thought within the context of the specific nature of agrarian capitalism and the struggles that ensued around the nature of the state during the revolutionary decade of the 1640s. In the context of the emerging conceptions of the state and property - with attendant notions of accumulation, labor, and the common good - groups such as Levellers and Diggers developed distinctive forms of radical political thought not because they were progressive, forward thinkers, but because they were the most significant challengers of the newly constituted forms of political and economic power." "Drawing on recent reexaminations of the nature of agrarian capitalism and modernity in the early modern period, Geoff Kennedy argues that any interpretation of the political theory of this period must relate to the changing nature of social property relations and state power. The radical nature of early modern English political thought is therefore cast-in terms of its oppositional relationship to these novel forms of property and state power, rather than being conceived of as a formal break from discursive conventions."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Laura Slater
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781783273331
An exploration of how power and political society were imagined, represented and reflected on in medieval English art
Author : Martyn P. Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367279258
Originally published in 1987. This book analyses what Englishmen understood by the term contract in political discussions during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It provides evidence for reconsidering conventional accounts of the relationships between political ideas, groups and practices of the period. But also suggests cause for examining the general history of modern European contract theory. It considers contract as a term appearing in a spectrum of works from philosophical treatise to sermons and polemical pamphlets. Looking at the various vocabularies relating to contractualist ideas, the author suggests that standard histories of social contract theory and particular histories of English political thought during this unstable period have misrepresented the meaning of the term contract as a key term in political argument. He shows that there were in fact three different categories of contract theory but allows that the various kinds of contractualism did share certain broad features. This study of a crucial age in the history of appeals to contract in political argument will be of interest to political philosophers and historians. features. This study of a crucial age in the history of appeals to contract in political argument will be of interest to political philosophers and historians.
Author : Garrett Ward Sheldon
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781438129242
Presents articles on concepts, issues, and notable persons related to politics and political science throughout history.
Author : Michael Mendle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521521319
Professor Mendle situates each of Parker's significant tracts in its polemical, intellectual, and political context.
Author : Michael Rosen,Jonathan Wolff,Catriona McKinnon
Publisher : Oxford Readers
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192892782
Human beings live together in societies which, by their very nature, give rise to institutions governing the behavior and freedom of individuals. This raises important questions about how these institutions ought to function, and the extent to which actual systems of government succeed or fail in meeting these ideals. This Oxford Reader contains 140 key writings on political thought, covering issues about human nature and its relation to society, the extent to which the powers of the State are justified, the tension between liberty and rights, and the way resources should be distributed. Topics such as international relations, minority rights, democracy, socialism, and conservatism are also discussed by contributors ranging from Plato and Aristotle to Foucault, Isaiah Berlin, and Martin Luther King.
Author : Rachel Foxley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526112088
The Leveller movement of the 1640s campaigned for religious toleration and a radical remaking of politics in post-civil war England. This book, the first full-length study of the Levellers for fifty years, offers a fresh analysis of the originality and character of Leveller thought. Challenging received ideas about the Levellers as social contract theorists and Leveller thought as a mere radicalisation of parliamentarian thought, Foxley shows that the Levellers’ originality lay in their subtle and unexpected combination of different strands within parliamentarianism. The book takes full account of recent scholarship, and contributes to historical debates on the development of radical and republican politics in the civil war period, the nature of tolerationist thought, the significance of the Leveller movement and the extent of the Levellers’ influence in the ranks of the New Model Army.
Author : Markku Peltonen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521617162
Markku Peltonen examines humanist and republican themes in English political thinking between the mid-sixteenth century and the Civil War. He challenges the dominant view that humanism fizzled out in the middle of the sixteenth century only to re-emerge during the 1650s in the writings of such classical republicans as James Harrington and John Milton. The English continued to use central notions of the humanist tradition such as the virtuous civic life and vera nobilitas to portray themselves as citizens, characterizing their life as one of participation rather than subjection. They often resorted to openly republican themes - notably that governors be elected rather than hereditary - and the classical idea of the mixed constitution was profoundly influential. Dr Peltonen casts an important new perspective on these humanist and republican themes, and locates their uses in specific historical circumstances.
Author : David Armitage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0511269846
This volume celebrates the contribution of the Folger Institute to British studies over many years.