Contributions

  • Wood, Neal. - Contributor

Publication

1997 - New York University Press, Washington Square, N.Y, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

37,500 words, Guess

Page Count

150 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing163263
  • Goodreads594111

Classifications

  • DDC320/.01
  • LCCJA84.G7 W66 1997

Description

A Trumpet of Sedition surveys canonical texts by thinkers such as Thomas More, Richard Hooker, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke, as well as the ideas of radicals like the Levellers and Gerrard Winstanley and less well known but important figures. The authors explain these texts in clear and lively prose, while situating them in their social and political context in new and original ways and contrasting the English case to others in Europe. By examining political ideas not merely as free-floating abstractions but as living encounters with historical experience - the formation of the English state and the rise of agrarian capitalism - A Trumpet of Sedition illuminates the roots of contemporary Western political thought.

Subjects

Topics

HistorySeditionEconomicsCapitalismPolitical scienceEconomics, historyPolitical science, great britain

Places

Other Editions

  • A trumpet of sedition: political theory and the rise of capitalism, 1509-1688New York University Press1997-01-01

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