The Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500}}}1800 [Paperback]

A history of political debate and theory in England (later Britain) between the English Reformation and French Revolution.There is at present no overall history of English and British political thought and literature in the early modern period. This volume attempts to review the period from the English Reformation to the French Revolution, to suggest new ways of studying the articulation of political consciousness and the conduct of political argument, and to point out the extraordinary intellectual and linguistic richness of the ongoing English and British political debateThere is at present no overall history of English and British political thought and literature in the early modern period. This volume attempts to review the period from the English Reformation to the French Revolution, to suggest new ways of studying the articulation of political consciousness and the conduct of political argument, and to point out the extraordinary intellectual and linguistic richness of the ongoing English and British political debateThere is at present no overall history of English and British political thought and literature in the early modern period. This volume attempts to review the period from the English Reformation to the French Revolution, to suggest new ways of studying the articulation of political consciousness and the conduct of political argument, and to point out the extraordinary intellectual and linguistic richness of the ongoing English and British political debate.Editorial introduction; Part I. Church, Court and Counsel: 1. The Henrician age John Guy; 2. Elizabethan political thought Donald R. Kelley; 3. Kingship, counsel and law in early Stuart Britain Linda Levy Peck; Part II. Dissolution, Restoration and Revolution: 4. The Puritan Revolution: a historiographical essay William M. Lamont; 5. Interregnum and Restoration J. G. A. Pocock and Gordon J. Schochet; 6. The later Stuart age Howard Nenner; Part III. Commerce, Empire and History: 7. Politics and pollÃ/