Description |
xi, 215 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Series |
Studies in modern history |
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Studies in modern history (St. Martin's Press)
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Contents |
Pt. I. Overview of the Political Domain. 1. Stability and Structure. 2. Conflation and Distinction -- Pt. II. The Vocabulary of Status and Action. 3. Subject and Citizen. 4. Resistance and Rebellion. 5. Will All the Radicals Please Lie Down, We Can't See the Seventeenth Century |
Summary |
"This is a study of the words of political discourse in seventeenth-century England from which we now reconstruct its theories. Taking its starting-point in modern theories of language, intellectual history is first reconceptualised. Part 1 presents an overview of the political domain in the seventeenth century, arguing that what we see as the political was fugitive and subject to reductionist pressures from better-established fields of discourse. Further there were strong pressures leading towards an indiscriminate and relatively general vocabulary, in turn facilitating the imposition of our anachronistic images of political theory. Part 2 focuses on a sub-set of the political vocabulary, charting the changing relationships between the words subject, citizen, resistance and rebellion, the coinage of rhetorical exchange |
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The final chapter returns most explicitly to the themes of the introduction, by exploring how the historian's own vocabulary can be systematically misleading when taken into the context of seventeenth-century word use."--BOOK JACKET |
Analysis |
England |
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Politics History, 1603-1714 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-206) and index |
Subject |
Field theory (Linguistics)
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Political science literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
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Political science -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
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Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
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LC no. |
94005979 |
ISBN |
0312121830 |
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0333579372 |
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