James Harrington`s brief career as a politicall and historical and historical theorist belongs to the last years of the Cromwellian Protectorate and the Restoration of 1660.This volume comprises the firs and last of Harrington`s writings ,offering for the first time in intellectual history an explanation of the English Civil Wars as a revolution by another through long-term social change.The Commonwealth of Oceana is fictionalised presentation of English history up to the victory of the New Model Army,explaining the fall of the monarchy and proposting a republic to replace it .ASystim of Politics erected on the foundations ,of his previous works .Professor Pocock`s lucid introduction emphasises Harrington`s place as a pivotal figure in the history of English political thought,and presents him as among the last Englist political Platonists and the first philosophical historians.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of the history of ideas,early modern history,and political theory,and contains a chronology of events in Harrington`s life and a guide to further reading as aids to the reader.
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