Title Against Throne and Altar : Machiavelli and Political Theory Under the English Republic

Published Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (436 pages) Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and Brief Titles; Introduction; Prologue: Machiavelli in the English Revolution; Part I Machiavelli's new republicanism; Preface; 1 Machiavelli's Populist Turn; 2 The Ravages of an Ambitious Idleness; Part II Revolutionary aristotelianism; Preface; 3 The Classical Republicanism of John Milton; 4 The Liberation of Captive Minds; Part III Machiavellian republicanism anglicized; Preface; 5 Marchamont Nedham and the Regicide Republic; 6 Servant of the Rump; 7 The Good Old Cause Part IV Thomas Hobbes and the new republicanismPreface; 8 Thomas Hobbes's Republican Youth; 9 The Making of a Modern Monarchist; 10 The Very Model of a Modern Moralist; 11 The Hobbesian Republicanism of James Harrington; Epilogue: After the Fall; Index Summary Examines the political thinking of four men - John Milton, Marchamont Nedham, James Harrington, and Thomas Hobbes Notes Print version record Subject Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527 -- Influence SUBJECT Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527 fast Subject Republicanism -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Politics and government Republicanism SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056798 Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056895 Subject Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780511386336 0511386338 128125505X 9781281255051

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