Author : James Harrington
Release : 1992-08-20
Genre : History
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Harrington: 'The Commonwealth of Oceana' and 'A System of Politics' - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Harrington: 'The Commonwealth of Oceana' and 'A System of Politics' write by James Harrington. This book was released on 1992-08-20. Harrington: 'The Commonwealth of Oceana' and 'A System of Politics' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. James 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.