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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman (1959)di Caroline Robbins
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Ms Robbins' work covers a neglected part of British history related to political thought from the restoration of Charles II to the eve of the American Revolution. Her argument is that these political thoughts found in tracts, books, & sermons had a great influence on the American colonials. Although the writers like Milton, Locke, & Sidney directed their views toward the idea of reforming existing government, their views had little impact on any sort of reformation involving Parliament. Their ideas written by those who had very little influence on British government were remarkably ahead of their time but in some cases wildly impractical. It was the American colonials like Franklin & Jefferson who took to heart those ideas & implemented them into the formation of a new government. There is an interesting chapter on Ireland as well as one on Scotland which should interest the reader. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Of the Previous Edition . . . "Professor Robbins’ book, a monumental piece of mature scholarship . . . is a history of liberal ideas and the men who promulgated them in England from the Restoration to the American War of Independence.” --John Charles Weston, Jr., The Review of Politics (1961) In her Introduction to The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman, Caroline Robbins wrote that the Commonwealthmen were "a gifted and active minority of the population of the British Isles, who kept alive, during an age of extraordinary complacency and legislative inactivity, a demand for increased liberty of conscience.” Their essays, arguments, pamphlets, and histories--a continual flow from the late seventeenth century to the end of the eighteenth--were hugely popular in America. The themes presented were revolutionary: separation of powers, natural rights, rotation in office, religious freedom, a supreme court, and resistance to tyranny. They achieved very little political success, but the documents of later generations are full of ideas kept alive by the Commonwealthmen in difficult times. In The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman, Robbins adeptly presents a history of these men, whose writings advocated the principles of liberty in an era when change was considered perilous. Caroline Robbins (1903-1999) was educated at the University of London, receiving her Ph.D. there before going to the United States. She taught history at Bryn Mawr College from 1929 to 1971 and was chairman of the department from 1957 to 1969. Author of numerous articles on English political and constitutional history, she wrote Absolute Liberty (1982), edited Two English Republican Tracts (1969), and was chairman of the Papers of William Penn from 1967 to 1979. Click here for a pdf of a brochure featuring The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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