Harrington 'The Commonwealth of Oceana' and 'A System of Politics'

Name: Harrington 'The Commonwealth of Oceana' and 'A System of Politics'
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ISBN: 9780521423298

ISBN-10: 0521423295

ISBN-13: 9780521423298

Edition: 1992

Authors: James Harrington, J. G. A. Pocock, Raymond Geuss, Quentin. Skinner

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James Harringtons 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 Harringtons 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…

Book details

List price: $38.99
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/20/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface


Introduction


Chronology


Bibliography


The Commonwealth of Oceana


A System of Politics


Index