Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-viii

Notes on Contributors

pp ix-xii

Introduction

pp 1-9

1 - The History of British Political Thought: a Field and its Futures

pp 10-20

PART I - BRITISH POLITICAL THOUGHT AND HISTORY

pp 21-22

2 - Thinking about the New British History

pp 23-46

3 - The Matter of Britain and the Contours of British Political Thought

pp 47-66

4 - The Intersections Between Irish and British Political Thought of the Early-Modern Centuries

pp 67-88

5 - In Search of a British History of Political Thought

pp 89-108

PART II - BRITISH POLITICAL THOUGHT AND LITERATURE

pp 109-110

6 - Republicanism in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Britain

pp 111-128

7 - Dramatic Traditions and Shakespeare's Political Thought

pp 129-144

8 - Irony, Disguise and Deceit: What Literature Teaches us about Politics

pp 145-167

9 - Poetry and Political Thought: Liberty and Benevolence in the Case of the British Empire c. 1680–1800

pp 168-188

PART III - BRITISH POLITICAL THOUGHT AND POLITICAL THEORY

pp 189-190

10 - The Nature of Rights and the History of Empire

pp 191-211

11 - Reading the Private in Margaret Cavendish: Conversations in Political Thought

pp 212-234

12 - Reflections on Political Literature: History, Theory and the Printed Book

pp 235-253

13 - Here and Now, There and Then, Always and Everywhere: Reflections Concerning Political Theory and the Study/Writing of Political Thought

pp 254-277

Afterword

pp 278-285

Bibliography

pp 286-318

Index

pp 319-326