The Political Works of James Harrington
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- Real Author: James Harrington
- Editor: J. G. A. Pocock
- Date Published: April 2010
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James Harrington (1611–1677) was a pioneer in applying the methods of Machiavelli and other civic humanists to English political society and its landed structure. In the century after his death, his ideas were adapted to become an important ingredient in the vocabulary of both English and American political opposition to the methods of Hanoverian parliamentary monarchy. This work includes all of his prose works on political subjects as well as Oceana, his best-known work. The critical introduction attempts to revalue the evidence concerning Harrington's life and writings, to locate them in the context of Civil War, Commonwealth and Puritan thinking and to trace the development of Harringtonian and neo-Harringtonian ideology during subsequent generations.
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- Date Published: April 2010
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9780521137904
- length: 898 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 29 mm
- weight: 0.81kg
- availability: Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Editorial introduction
1. Harrington's life before 1656
2. Oceana: the circumstances of publication
3. Oceana: its ideological context
4. Oceana: its argument and character
5. The growth of the canon: the polemic against clericalism
6. The growth of the canon: the disintegration of the commonwealth
7. The history of the ideology: Harrington's ideas after his lifetime
8. The Commonwealth of Oceana
9. The manner and use of the ballot
10. Pian Piano
11. The prerogative of popular government
12. The stumbling-block of disobedience and rebellion
13. A note upon the foregoing ecologues
14. Brief directions
15. The art of lawgiving
16. Politicaster
17. Pour enclouer le Canon
18. A discourse upon this saying
19. A discourse showing that the spirit of parliaments … is not to be trusted
20. A parallel of the spirit of the people with the spirit of Mr Rogers
21. Aphorisms political
22. Valerius and publicola
23. The rota
24. The ways and means whereby an equal and lasting commonwealth
25. A letter unto Mr Stubbe
26. A system of politics
27. The examination of James Harrington
Index.
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