Commonwealth Principles: Republican Writing of the English Revolution

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Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Introduction: English republicanism
Historiography
Long-term contexts: intellectual and practical
Intellectual content: ends and means
Ideas and events: the impact of the republican experiment in practice
Part I Contexts
Chapter 1 Classical republicanism
'Classical republicanism'
Commonwealth principles
Conclusion
Chapter 2 The cause of God
Introduction
Christian humanism
Anti-popery, anti-clericalism, liberty of conscience
Reformation of manners
Theology
Enlightenment
Chapter 3 Discourses of a commonwealth
The english commonwealth
The military-fiscal state
The social state
Discourses of a commonwealth
Chapter 4 Old worlds and new
Introduction: the question of modernity
The context of time
Political economy
The context of space
Part II Analysis
Chapter 5 The political theory of rebellion
Introduction: the law of war
Milton and nedham
Streater and sexby
Harrington and neville
Restoration, 1660–1680
Sidney's discourses
Chapter 6 Constitutions
Introduction: the empire of laws and not of men
Popular unicameralism, 1623–1654
The mixed constitution, 1653–1658
The mariners and the ship, 1659–1660
Restoration
Chapter 7 Liberty
Introduction
Milton
Nedham
Streater and vane
Harrington
Sidney
Chapter 8 Virtue
Milton and plato
Nedham and machiavelli
Streater and aristotle
Harrington
'Cleave, saw and cut:' sidney, vane and the rhetoric of puritan magistracy
Chapter 9 The politics of time
The politics of the ancient constitution
The politics of change
Chapter 10 Empire
Introduction
Milton and the empire of the self
Nedham, streater, harrington
Sidney and neville
Part III Chronology
Chapter 11 Republicans and Levellers, 1603–1649
1603–1641: commonwealth principles and practice
'Two and fifty degrees of northern latitude'
Tribune of the plebs
The political theory of the english revolution
Chapter 12 The English republic, 1649–1653
'A new order in the state'?
The struggle for survival, 1649–1651
A republic for expansion, 1651–1653
Dissolution
Chapter 13 Healing and settling, 1653–1658
Republican compliment
Republican criticism
Harrington's 'model' for healing and settling
Chapter 14 The good old cause, 1658–1660
The republican moment, 1659–1660
The fall of the protectorate, september 1658–april 1659
Restoration of the rump, may–september 1659
'Anarchy', october 1659–april 1660
Chapter 15 Anatomies of tyranny, 1660–1683
Introduction
Analyses of failure
Anatomies of tyranny
Chapter 16 Republicans and Whigs, 1680–1725
The question of parliaments, 1681–1683
A monarchical republic?
Conclusion: the anglo-dutch achievement
Appendix: 'a pretty story of horses' (May 1654)
Bibliography
1. MANUSCRIPTS
2. PRINTED PRIMARY SOURCES
3. SECONDARY SOURCES
Index