The varieties of British political thought, 1500-1800
As English (later British) political history unfolded between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, its events, issues, and meanings were discussed intensively in writing and print. This volume surveys the history of this discussion from a number of points of view. Historians, political theorists, and philosophers will all be interested in the result.
Print Book, English, 1993
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1993
x, 373 p ; 24 cm.
9780521443777, 9780521574983, 0521443776, 0521574986
1023887011
Editorial introduction; Part I. Church, Court and Counsel: 1. The Henrician age John Guy; 2. Elizabethan political thought Donald R. Kelley; 3. Kingship, counsel and law in early Stuart Britain Linda Levy Peck; Part II. Dissolution, Restoration and Revolution: 4. The Puritan Revolution: a historiographical essay William M. Lamont; 5. Interregnum and Restoration J. G. A. Pocock and Gordon J. Schochet; 6. The later Stuart age Howard Nenner; Part III. Commerce, Empire and History: 7. Politics and politeness in the reigns of Anne and the early Hanoverians Nicholas Phillipson; 8. Political thought in the English-speaking Atlantic: (i) The Imperial Crisis J. G. A. Pocock; 9. (ii) Empire, revolution and an end of early modernity J. G. A. Pocock; Part IV. Epilogue: 10. Why should history matter? Political theory and the history of discourse Gordon J. Schochet.
"Published in association with the Folger Institute, Washington, DC."