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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 January 2012
      20 August 1992
      ISBN:
      9781139137126
      9780521423298
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139137126
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.42kg, 332 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
      Subjects:
      British History after 1450, 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:
    British History after 1450, History, Politics and International Relations, Texts in Political Thought, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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    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 1992 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.

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