Author: James HarringtonPublisher:
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Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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The Oceana and Other Works of James Harrington Esq
Author: James HarringtonPublisher:
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Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
The Oceana, and Other Works of James Harrington, Esq; Collected, Methodiz'd, and Review'd, with an Exact Account of His Life Prefix'd
Author: James HarringtonPublisher:
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Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
The Oceana and Other Works of James Harrington Esq; Collected ... with an Exact Account of His Life Prefix'd, by John Toland. To which is Added, an Appendix, Containing All the Political Tracts Wrote by this Author, Omitted in Mr. Toland's Edition ... The Third Edition: with an Alphabetical Index, Etc
Author: James HARRINGTON (Author of “Oceana.”.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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The Oceana of James Harrington, Esq
Author: James HarringtonPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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James Harrington
Author: Rachel HammersleyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192537865
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Despite not being an active participant in the English Civil War, seventeenth-century political thinker James Harrington exercised an important influence on the ideas and politics of that crucial period of history. In The Commonwealth of Oceana he sought to explain why civil war had broken out in 1642, to put the case for commonwealth government, and to offer a detailed constitutional blueprint for a new and successful English government. In this intellectual biography of Harrington, Rachel Hammersley sets a fresh analysis of this and Harrington's other writings against the background of his life and the turbulent period in which he lived. In doing so, this study seeks to move beyond the conventional view of Harrington as primarily a republican thinker, offering a broader and more comprehensive account of him which addresses the complexity of his republicanism as well as exploring his contributions to economic, historical, religious, philosophical, and scientific debates; his experimentation with vocabulary and literary form; and the relationship between his life and thought. Harrington is presented as an innovative political thinker, committed to democracy, social mobility, and meritocracy. Ultimately, this broader examination of Harrington's life and work opens a window on political, economic, religious, and scientific issues which serve to complicate understandings of the English Revolution, and sheds fresh light on the relevance of seventeenth-century ideas to the modern world.
The Oceana
Author: James HarringtonPublisher:
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Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Science and the Founding Fathers
Author: I. Bernard CohenPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393035018
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
America's founding fathers were remarkably well-rounded people, not least in their understanding of science. Thomas Jefferson was the only president who could read and understand Newton's Principia. Benjamin Franklin, in 1775, held international fame in science. John Adams had the finest education in science the new country could provide, including "Pnewmaticks, Hydrostaticks, Mechanicks, Staticks, Opticks". And James Madison, chief architect of the Constitution, peppered his Federalist Papers with reference to physics, chemistry, and the life sciences. For these men science was an integral part of life - including political life. This is the story of their scientific education and of how they employed that knowledge in shaping the political issues of the day, incorporating scientific reasoning into the Constitution. General readers, students of American history, and professional historians alike will profit from reading this engaging presentation of an aspect of American history conspiculously absent from the usual textbooks and popular presentations of the political thought of this crucial period.
Harrington: 'The Commonwealth of Oceana' and 'A System of Politics'
Author: James HarringtonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521423298
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
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.
Agents of the People
Author: Pasi IhalainenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004183361
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 547
Book Description
Analysing parliamentary references to the people, this book provides a more nuanced interpretation of eighteenth-century re-evaluations of democracy. It shows how interaction between parliamentarians and the public sphere in different political cultures produced more modern conceptions of the legitimacy of political power.
Catharine Macaulay's Republican Enlightenment
Author: Karen GreenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000066118
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
The ‘celebrated’ Catharine Macaulay was both lauded and execrated during the eighteenth century for her republican politics and her unconventional, second marriage. This comprehensive biography in the 'life and letters' tradition situates her works in their political and social contexts and offers an unprecedented, detailed account of the content and influence of her writing, the arguments she developed in her eight-volume history of England and her other political, ethical, and educational works. Her disagreements with conservative opponents, David Hume, Edmund Burke, and Samuel Johnson are developed in detail, as is her influence on more progressive admirers such as Thomas Jefferson, Jacques-Pierre Brissot, Mercy Otis Warren, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Macaulay emerges as a coherent and influential political voice, whose attitudes and aspirations were characteristic of those enlightenment republicans who grounded their progressive politics in rational religion. She looked back to the seventeenth-century levellers and parliamentarians as important precursors who had advocated the liberty and political rights she aspired to see implemented in Great Britain, America, and France. Her defence of republican liberty and the equal rights of men offers an important corrective to some contemporary accounts of the character and origins of democratic republicanism during this crucial period.