Isbn: 9780865974272 - eighteenth-century commonwealthman: studies in the transmission, development, & circumstance of english liberal thought from the restoration of ... of charles ii until the war with the thrirt (11 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. In her Introduction to The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman, Caroline Robbins wrote that the Commonwealthmen were "a gifted and active minority of the population of the British Isles, who kept alive, during an age of extraordinary complacency and legislative inactivity, a demand for increased liberty of conscience.". Their essays, arguments, pamphlets, and histories -- a continual flow from the late seventeenth century to the end of the eighteenth -- were hugely popular in America. The themes presented were revolutionary: separation of powers, natural rights, rotation in office, religious freedom, a supreme court, and resistance to tyranny. They achieved very little political success, but the documents of later generations are full of ideas kept alive by the Commonwealthmen in difficult times. In The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman, Robbins adeptly presents a history of these men, whose writings advocated the principles of liberty in an era when change was considered perilous.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Gut. XV, 465 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - leicht berieben, minimale Randläsuren, Fußschnitt angeschmutzt, sonst gut und sauber / lightly rubbed, minimal edgewear, bottom edge soiled, otherwise good and clean. - Contents Foreword I. Introduction The Name of a Commonwealthman Ideas Dissemination of the Ideas Measure of Achievement II. Some Seventeenth-Century Commonwealthmen Links with the Interregnum Neville and Harrington Sidney Ludlow and Nedham Milton and Marvell III. The Whigs of the Revolution and of the Sacheverell Trial Whig and Commonwealthman in 88 Locke and Newton James Tyrrell and Richard Cumberland, Bishop of Peterborough John, Lord Somers, and the Whigs of the Sacheverell Trial The Old and the New Whigs IV. Robert Molesworth and His Friends in England, 1693-1727 Old Whigs Robert Molesworths Life and Friends An Account of Denmark Projects and Reforms Trenchard and Gordon, Two Independent Whigs Toland and Shaftesbury V. The Case of Ireland Liberal Ideas Before Grattan and Tone William Molyneux and His Case of Ireland Brisk Asserters of Irish Liberties: King, Maxwell, Dobbs, and Swift Reflections and Resolutions Proper for the Gentlemen of Ireland: Molesworth, Madden, Berkeley, Prior Civil and Religious Liberty VI. The Interest of Scotland Scotland in 1700 Buchanan and Fletcher Francis Hutcheson and Adam Smith Ferguson, the Rankenians, Wallace Later Republicans at Aberdeen and GlasgowBlackwell, Ogilvie and Millar VII. The Contribution of Nonconformity Unpopularity, Schism, and Decline Schism: Barrington and Bradbury Historians, Preachers, and Tutors NealThe Historians and Journalists Foster Watts Grove Doddridge Poets, Publishers, Laymen VIII. Staunch Whigs and Republicans of the Reign of George II (1727-1760) Complacency and Politics Parliamentmen, Historical, Constitutional, and Legal Commentators Anglican Innovators and ReformersThe Hoadlyites Edmund Law and John Brown Thomas Pownalls Principles of Polity IX. Honest Whigs Under George III, 1761-1789 Character of Radicalism in the Period The Blackburne Connection Price, Priestley, and Some Other Dissenters Political Disquisitions, Societies, and Associations X. Conclusion Bibliographical Commentary Acknowledgments Notes Index. ISBN 9780865974272 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 788.…

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Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorCaroline Robbins (1903-1999) was educated at the University of London, receiving her PhD there before going to the United States. She taught history at Bryn Mawr College from 1929 to 1971 and was chairman of the depart.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this volume, Caroline Robbins adeptly presents a history of the Commonwealthmen, 'a gifted and active minority of the population of the British Isles, who kept alive, during an age of extraordinary complacency and legislative inactivity, a demand for increased liberty of conscience.' Caroline Robbins (1903-1999) taught history at Bryn Mawr College from 1929 to 1971 and was chairman of the department from 1957 to 1969.…