Explaining the English Revolution : Hobbes and his contemporaries
Studies the years 1649 to 1653, from regicide to the establishment of the Cromwellian Commonwealth, during which time English writers took stock of a disordered England stripped of the traditional ideas of political, moral, and social order and considered the possibilities for a politically and religiously reordered state.
Print Book, English, [2007], ©2002
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Lexington Books, Lanham, Md., [2007], ©2002
History
xiv, 182 pages ; 24 cm
9780739121818, 9780739103623, 0739121812, 0739103628
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Introduction : the disordering of order
Gerrard Winstanley : the oppressions of covetousness
John Milton : tyranny and revolution
Oliver Cromwell : factions, forcers of conscience and civil war
Sir Robert Filmer : the anarchy of natural liberty
Thomas Hobbes : divided sovereignty and civil war
Conclusion : the ordering of disorder