Title The political thought of the English Free state, 1649-1653 / Markku Peltonen, University of Helsinki

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023 ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 263 pages) Series Ideas in context Ideas in context. Contents Introduction -- Changing the form of government -- Anti-monarchism -- The free state -- Aristocracy -- Democracy -- Epilogue Summary "The English Revolution has always held pride of place in histories of Anglophone political thought. The political writings of the Levellers and John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, and James Harrington, to name only the most obvious, were all shaped by, indeed in many ways the products of, the upheavals of the mid seventeenth century. It is simply impossible to understand their political ideas without the context of the English Revolution. Historians have pored over every aspect of political thought from the first controversies leading up to the civil wars in the early 1640s to the final debates on the eve of the Restoration in 1659-60, and yet there is one period amid these revolutionary decades which has captured scant scholarly attention. This is the period of the free state from early 1649, when Charles I was executed and the free state established, to the spring of 1653, when Oliver Cromwell and the army dissolved the Rump and eventually established the protectorate. This scholarly neglect is even more startling given the fact that the trial and execution of Charles I and the founding of the free state arguably marked the culmination of the entire period. Historians have of course examined the political ideas underlying these events and the whole republican era, but, although they often disagree with one another on many points of detail, they agree on one salient general point. Practically all of them, though in varying degrees, play down, or even belittle, the importance of the political thought of the republican period"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 24, 2022) Subject Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658. Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649 -- Assassination SUBJECT Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649 fast Cromwell, Oliver, 1599-1658 fast Subject Political science -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century Republicanism -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century Political culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. Assassination Political culture Political science Republicanism SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056798 Subject Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2022025816 ISBN 9781009212090 1009212095

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