| Description |
x, 150 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: What is Political Theory? -- 1. Two Centuries of Revolution -- 2. 'Sheep Devouring Men': Thomas More, the Commonwealthmen and A New Social Criticism -- 3. 'A Multitude of Free Men Collected Together': Thomas Smith, John Ponet and Richard Hooker -- 4. 'The Poorest He That Is in England': Political Ideas in the English Revolution -- 5. 'A Multitude of Men is Made One Person': The Political Thought of Thomas Hobbes -- 6. 'Life, Liberty and Estate': The Political Thought of John Locke |
| Summary |
A Trumpet of Sedition surveys canonical texts by thinkers such as Thomas More, Richard Hooker, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke, as well as the ideas of radicals like the Levellers and Gerrard Winstanley and less well known but important figures. The authors explain these texts in clear and lively prose, while situating them in their social and political context in new and original ways and contrasting the English case to others in Europe. By examining political ideas not merely as free-floating abstractions but as living encounters with historical experience - the formation of the English state and the rise of agrarian capitalism - A Trumpet of Sedition illuminates the roots of contemporary Western political thought |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-143) and index |
| Subject |
Capitalism -- Great Britain -- History.
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Economics -- Great Britain -- History.
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Political science -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.
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Political science -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
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Political science -- Great Britain -- History.
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| Author |
Wood, Neal, author
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| LC no. |
96034777 |
| ISBN |
0814793177 (cloth) |
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0814793215 (paperback) |
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9780814793176 (cloth) |
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9780814793213 (paperback) |
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