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Author: Markku Peltonen Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1009212044 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 275
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Presents a provocative reassessment of the English Revolution and an original new perspective on English republicanism, drawing on a wide range of sources, including the vast political pamphlet literature of the era. The book also highlights the unprecedented debate over whether the free state was an aristocracy or democracy.
Author: Markku Peltonen Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1009212044 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 275
Book Description
Presents a provocative reassessment of the English Revolution and an original new perspective on English republicanism, drawing on a wide range of sources, including the vast political pamphlet literature of the era. The book also highlights the unprecedented debate over whether the free state was an aristocracy or democracy.
Author: Sean Kelsey Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 9780719050572 Category : Great Britain Languages : en Pages : 272
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The character and appearance of English governance were changed utterly in 1649, when Charles I was executed and the monarchy abolished. At a stroke, legitimate authority in the nation was stripped of the charismatic focus from whence it had derived much of its apparently ageless dignity. This volume provides a study of how England's political culture was reinvented by the new parliamentary republic. It describes how government members colonized and revived the abandoned royal palace at Whitehall, and describes the imaginative and consistently iconographic and ceremonial languages with which they replaced the imagery and spectacle of the monarchy. It makes a case for the comprehensive revision of the historio-graphical preconceptions surrounding England's only lengthy period of kinglessness.
Author: Blair Worden Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0191624411 Category : History Languages : en Pages :
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The Puritan Revolution escaped the control of its creators. The parliamentarians who went to war with Charles I in 1642 did not want or expect the fundamental changes that would follow seven years later: the trial and execution of the king, the abolition of the House of Lords, and the creation of the only republic in English history. There were startling and unexpected developments, too, in religion and ideas: the spread of unorthodox doctrines; the attainment of a wide measure of liberty of conscience; and new thinking about the moral and intellectual bases of politics and society. God's Instruments centres on the principal instrument of radical change, Oliver Cromwell, and on the unfamiliar landscape of the decade he dominated, from the abolition of the monarchy in 1649 to the return of the Stuart dynasty in 1660. Its theme is the relationship between the beliefs or convictions of politicians and their decisions and actions. Blair Worden explores the biblical dimension of Puritan politics; the ways that a belief in the workings of divine providence affected political conduct; Cromwell's commitment to liberty of conscience and his search for godly reformation through educational reform; the constitutional premises of his rule and those of his opponents in the struggle for supremacy between parliamentary and military rule; and the relationship between conceptions of civil and religious liberty. The conflicts Worden reconstructs are placed in the perspective of long-term developments, of which many historians have lost sight. The final chapters turn to the guiding convictions of two writers at the heart of politics, John Milton and the royalist Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon. Material from previously published essays, much of it expanded and extensively revised, comes together with newly written chapters to bring fresh evidence and argument to a period of lively debate and interest.
Author: James Harrington Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521423298 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 342
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James Harrington's brief career as a political and historical theorist spans the last years of the Cromwellian Protectorate and the Restoration of 1660. This volume comprises the first and last of Harrington's writings. Harrington was the first theorist to interpret the English Civil Wars as a revolution, the result of a long-term process of social change which led to the decay of the old political order. The Commonwealth of Oceana (1656) is a fictionalised presentation of English history up to the victory of the New Model Army, explaining the fall of the monarchy and proposing a republic to replace it. A System of Politics, written after the Restoration, is a scheme of history and political philosophy erected on the foundations of his previous works. Professor Pocock's introduction emphasises Harrington's place as a pivotal figure in the history of English political thought. This edition also contains a chronology of events in Harrington's life and a guide to further reading.
Author: Marchamont Nedham Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781019255346 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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Author: Markku Peltonen
Author: Markku Peltonen
Author: Sean Kelsey
Author: Blair Worden
Author: James Harrington
Author: J. G. A. Pocock
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Author: John William Allen
Author: Marchamont Nedham
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