Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Changing the form of government -- Anti-monarchism -- The free state -- Aristocracy -- Democracy -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.

Bibliographische Detailangaben

1. Verfasser:	Peltonen, Markku 1957- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA ; Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia ; New Delhi, India ; Singapore Cambridge University Press 2023
Schriftenreihe:	Ideas in context
Schlagworte:	Cromwell, Oliver / 1599-1658 Charles / I / King of England / 1600-1649 / Assassination Republicanism / Great Britain / History / 17th century Political culture / Great Britain / History / 17th century Political science / Great Britain / History / 17th century POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory Great Britain / History / Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660
Zusammenfassung:	Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Changing the form of government -- Anti-monarchism -- The free state -- Aristocracy -- Democracy -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index. "The English Revolution has always held pride of place in histories of Anglophone political thought. The political writings of the Levellers and John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, and James Harrington, to name only the most obvious, were all shaped by, indeed in many ways the products of, the upheavals of the mid seventeenth century. It is simply impossible to understand their political ideas without the context of the English Revolution. Historians have pored over every aspect of political thought from the first controversies leading up to the civil wars in the early 1640s to the final debates on the eve of the Restoration in 1659-60, and yet there is one period amid these revolutionary decades which has captured scant scholarly attention. This is the period of the free state from early 1649, when Charles I was executed and the free state established, to the spring of 1653, when Oliver Cromwell and the army dissolved the Rump and eventually established the protectorate. This scholarly neglect is even more startling given the fact that the trial and execution of Charles I and the founding of the free state arguably marked the culmination of the entire period. Historians have of course examined the political ideas underlying these events and the whole republican era, but, although they often disagree with one another on many points of detail, they agree on one salient general point. Practically all of them, though in varying degrees, play down, or even belittle, the importance of the political thought of the republican period"--
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	ix, 263 Seiten
ISBN:	9781009212045 9781009212052