From Kingdom to Commonwealth
Author: Donald W. Hanson
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Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 9780674182738
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Author: Donald W. Hanson
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Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 485
ISBN-13: 9780674182738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald W. Hanson
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 496
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Hardt
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-10-01
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 0674053966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Empire appeared in 2000, it defined the political and economic challenges of the era of globalization and, thrillingly, found in them possibilities for new and more democratic forms of social organization. Now, with Commonwealth, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri conclude the trilogy begun with Empire and continued in Multitude, proposing an ethics of freedom for living in our common world and articulating a possible constitution for our common wealth. Drawing on scenarios from around the globe and elucidating the themes that unite them, Hardt and Negri focus on the logic of institutions and the models of governance adequate to our understanding of a global commonwealth. They argue for the idea of the “common” to replace the opposition of private and public and the politics predicated on that opposition. Ultimately, they articulate the theoretical bases for what they call “governing the revolution.” Though this book functions as an extension and a completion of a sustained line of Hardt and Negri’s thought, it also stands alone and is entirely accessible to readers who are not familiar with the previous works. It is certain to appeal to, challenge, and enrich the thinking of anyone interested in questions of politics and globalization.
Author: Garth Fowden
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0691015457
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this bold approach to late antiquity, Garth Fowden shows how, from the second-century peak of Rome's prosperity to the ninth-century onset of the Islamic Empire's decline, powerful beliefs in One God were used to justify and strengthen "world empires." But tensions between orthodoxy and heresy that were inherent in monotheism broke the unitary empires of Byzantium and Baghdad into the looser, more pluralistic commonwealths of Eastern Christendom and Islam. With rare breadth of vision, Fowden traces this transition from empire to commonwealth, and in the process exposes the sources of major cultural contours that still play a determining role in Europe and southwest Asia.
Author: Noah Dauber
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2016-08-16
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 0691170304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the history of political thought, the emergence of the modern state in early modern England has usually been treated as the development of an increasingly centralizing and expansive national sovereignty. Recent work in political and social history, however, has shown that the state—at court, in the provinces, and in the parishes—depended on the authority of local magnates and the participation of what has been referred to as "the middling sort." This poses challenges to scholars seeking to describe how the state was understood by contemporaries of the period in light of the great classical and religious textual traditions of political thought. State and Commonwealth presents a new theory of state and society by expanding on the usual treatment of "commonwealth" in pre–Civil War English history. Drawing on works of theology, moral philosophy, and political theory—including Martin Bucer's De Regno Christi, Thomas Smith's De Republica Anglorum, John Case's Sphaera Civitatis, Francis Bacon's essays, and Thomas Hobbes's early works—Noah Dauber argues that the commonwealth ideal was less traditional than often thought. He shows how it incorporated new ideas about self-interest and new models of social order and stratification, and how the associated ideal of distributive justice pertained as much to the honors and offices of the state as to material wealth. Broad-ranging in scope, State and Commonwealth provides a more complete picture of the relationship between political and social theory in early modern England.
Author: David Rollison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-01-21
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 0521853737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExtraordinarily broad-ranging history of the rise of the English language and of popular politics in medieval and early modern England.
Author: Montell Ogdon
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 108
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Harrington
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-08-20
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780521423298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJames Harrington's brief career as a political and historical theorist spans the last years of the Cromwellian Protectorate and the Restoration of 1660. This volume comprises the first and last of Harrington's writings. Harrington was the first theorist to interpret the English Civil Wars as a revolution, the result of a long-term process of social change which led to the decay of the old political order. The Commonwealth of Oceana (1656) is a fictionalised presentation of English history up to the victory of the New Model Army, explaining the fall of the monarchy and proposing a republic to replace it. A System of Politics, written after the Restoration, is a scheme of history and political philosophy erected on the foundations of his previous works. Professor Pocock's introduction emphasises Harrington's place as a pivotal figure in the history of English political thought. This edition also contains a chronology of events in Harrington's life and a guide to further reading.
Author: Martin Kitchen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1996-08-14
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1349248304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom its modest to its recent disappearance, the British Empire was an extraordinary and paradoxical entity. North America, Africa, South and Southeast Asia and Australasia and innumerable small islands and territories have been fundamentally shaped - economically, socially and politically - by a nation whose imperial drive came from a bewildering mixture of rapacity and moral zeal, of high-mindedness and viciousness, of strategic cunning and feckless neglect. Martin Kitchen has written a fascinating, crisp, informative account of the rise and fall of the British Empire, concentrating on the 19th and 20th centuries but giving the background of the 'First British Empire', which was lost with the creating of the United States of America. His book is of particular value in relating the importance of the Empire to Britain's success as the only genuinely world power in the Victorian era and to Britain's ability to win the two great wars of the 20th century.
Author: Richard Baxter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-04-28
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521405805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst modern edition of a controversial seventeenth-century political and religious work.