James Harrington: An Intellectual Biography

by Rachel Hammersley

Despite not being an active participant in the English Civil War, seventeenth-century political thinker James Harrington exercised an important influence on the ideas and politics of that crucial period of history. In The Commonwealth of Oceana he sought to explain why civil war had broken out in 1642, to put the case for commonwealth government, and to offer a detailed constitutional blueprint for a new and successful English government. In this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198809859
• ISBN13: 9780198809852
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"