The Political Works of James Harrington: Part One

The Political Works of James Harrington: Part One
ISBN-10
0521137926
ISBN-13
9780521137928
Category
Political Science
Pages
950
Language
English
Published
1977
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
James Harrington

Description

James Harrington (1611-1677) was a pioneer in applying the methods of Machiavelli and other civic humanists to English political society and its landed structure. In the century after his death, his ideas were adapted to become an important ingredient in the vocabulary of both English and American political opposition to the methods of Hanoverian parliamentary monarchy. This work includes all of his prose works on political subjects as well as Oceana, his best-known work. The critical introduction attempts to revalue the evidence concerning Harrington's life and writings, to locate them in the context of Civil War, Commonwealth and Puritan thinking and to trace the development of Harringtonian and neo-Harringtonian ideology during subsequent generations.

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