Commonwealth principles : republican writing of the English revolution / Jonathan Scott.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: English republicanism -- Historiography -- Long-term contexts: intellectual and practical -- Intellectual content: ends and means -- Ideas and events: the impact of the republican experiment in practice -- Part I Contexts -- Chapter 1 Classical republicanism -- 'Classical republicanism' -- Commonwealth principles -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 The cause of God -- Introduction -- Christian humanism -- Anti-popery, anti-clericalism, liberty of conscience -- Reformation of manners -- Theology -- Enlightenment -- Chapter 3 Discourses of a commonwealth -- The english commonwealth -- The military-fiscal state -- The social state -- Discourses of a commonwealth -- Chapter 4 Old worlds and new -- Introduction: the question of modernity -- The context of time -- Political economy -- The context of space -- Part II Analysis -- Chapter 5 The political theory of rebellion -- Introduction: the law of war -- Milton and nedham -- Streater and sexby -- Harrington and neville -- Restoration, 1660-1680 -- Sidney's discourses -- Chapter 6 Constitutions -- Introduction: the empire of laws and not of men -- Popular unicameralism, 1623-1654 -- The mixed constitution, 1653-1658 -- The mariners and the ship, 1659-1660 -- Restoration -- Chapter 7 Liberty -- Introduction -- Milton -- Nedham -- Streater and vane -- Harrington -- Sidney -- Chapter 8 Virtue -- Milton and plato -- Nedham and machiavelli -- Streater and aristotle -- Harrington -- 'Cleave, saw and cut:' sidney, vane and the rhetoric of puritan magistracy -- Chapter 9 The politics of time -- The politics of the ancient constitution -- The politics of change -- Chapter 10 Empire -- Introduction -- Milton and the empire of the self -- Nedham, streater, harrington -- Sidney and neville -- Part III Chronology -- Chapter 11 Republicans and Levellers, 1603-1649 -- 1603-1641: commonwealth principles and practice -- 'Two and fifty degrees of northern latitude' -- Tribune of the plebs -- The political theory of the english revolution -- Chapter 12 The English republic, 1649-1653 -- 'A new order in the state'? -- The struggle for survival, 1649-1651 -- A republic for expansion, 1651-1653 -- Dissolution -- Chapter 13 Healing and settling, 1653-1658 -- Republican compliment -- Republican criticism -- Harrington's 'model' for healing and settling -- Chapter 14 The good old cause, 1658-1660 -- The republican moment, 1659-1660 -- The fall of the protectorate, september 1658-april 1659 -- Restoration of the rump, may-september 1659 -- 'Anarchy', october 1659-april 1660 -- Chapter 15 Anatomies of tyranny, 1660-1683 -- Introduction -- Analyses of failure -- Anatomies of tyranny -- Chapter 16 Republicans and Whigs, 1680-1725 -- The question of parliaments, 1681-1683 -- A monarchical republic? -- Conclusion: the anglo-dutch achievement -- Appendix: 'a pretty story of horses' (May 1654) -- Bibliogr.

The English revolution produced a vibrant print culture. Poets (famously John Milton), journalists, political leaders, theorists and Whig martyrs were among those contributing to the cultural ferment in support of republican ideas, newly analysed in Commonwealth Principles by Jonathan Scott, one of the foremost historians of the period writing today.

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