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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 December 2020
    10 December 2020
    ISBN:
    9781108684156
    9781108497121
    9781108739504
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108684156
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 138 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.57kg, 390 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 138 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.48kg, 400 Pages
    • Series:
    Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
    Subjects:
    History, Politics and International Relations, Texts in Political Thought, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    Series:
    Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
    Subjects:
    History, Politics and International Relations, Texts in Political Thought, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    William Penn (1644-1718) – Quaker activist, theorist of liberty of conscience, and colonial founder and proprietor – played a central role in the movement for religious liberty on both sides of the Atlantic for more than four decades. This volume presents, for the first time, a fully annotated scholarly edition of Penn's political writings over the course of his long public career, tracing his thinking from his early theorisation of religious toleration and liberty of conscience in England, as a leading member of the Society of Friends during the 1670s, to his colonial undertaking in Pennsylvania a decade later, his controversial role in the years leading up to the 1688 Revolution, and the ongoing consequences of that Revolution to his future prospects. Penn's political writings provide an illuminating window into the increasingly sophisticated and influential movement for liberty of conscience in the early modern world.

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    ‘… although Penn did not produce a philosophical magnum opus, he nevertheless deserves to be included 'in the canon of political thinkers worthy of sustained scholarly treatment' (vii). And who better to take on this project than Murphy himself, who has spent more than two decades studying and writing about Penn’s life, career, and thought.’

    Tim Harris Source: The European Legacy

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