Algernon Sidney and the Republican Heritage in England and America (eBook)

Alan Craig Houston (Autor)

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2014
350 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6245-0 (ISBN)

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Alan Houston introduces a new level of rigor into contemporary debates over republicanism by providing the first complete account of the range, structure, and influence of the political writings of Algernon Sidney (1623-1683). Though not well known today, Sidney's Discourses Concerning Government influenced radicals in England and America throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. To many, it was a "textbook of revolution." Houston begins with a masterful intellectual biography tracing the development of Sidney's ideas in the political and intellectual context of Stuart England, and he concludes with a detailed study of the impact of Sidney's writings and heroic martyrdom on revolutionary America. Documenting the interdependence of what have previously been regarded as distinctly "liberal" and "republican" theories, the author provides a new perspective on Anglo-American political thought. Many scholars have assumed that the republican language of virtue is distinct from and in tension with the liberal logic of rights and interests. By focusing on the contemporary meaning of concepts like freedom and slavery or virtue and corruption, Houston demonstrates that Sidney's republicanism and Locke's liberalism were not rivals but frequently complemented each other.Originally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: absolute monarchy • A History of Political Theory • Algernon Sidney • American Political Science Review • american political thought • Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty • Benjamin F. Hallett • Bert Lance • British Empire • Calvinism • Cambridge University Press • Catholicism • classical republicanism • Communitarianism • Confederation • Conrad Russell (letter writer) • Constitution • Constitutionalism • Constitution of the United Kingdom • Despot (court title) • Discourses (Meher Baba) • Divine right of kings • Edmund Ludlow • Electoral College (United States) • England • English law • English Revolution • Government • Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense) • Henry Marten (regicide) • Henry Sidney • Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes) • Hugo Grotius • Invasion of England (1326) • James Harrington (author) • James II of England • Jefferson Memorial • John Calvin • John Locke • John Morrill (historian) • Journal of British Studies • Julian P. Boyd • jus gentium • Liberalism • Marchamont Nedham • Monarch • Mr. • national republican party • New Model Army • News media • Nobility • nuclear proliferation • Nuclear warfare • nuclear weapon • Oliver Cromwell • Organization of American Historians • PAMPHLETEER • Parliament of England • Patriarcha • Patriarchalism • Patriarchy • Pergamon Press • Petition of Right • Political Philosophy • Political Science • Politique • Populism • Presidency of Ronald Reagan • President of the United States • Protestantism • Putney Debates • Quentin Skinner • Radicalism (historical) • Radical Whigs • Republicanism • Republicanism in the United Kingdom • Restoration (England) • Rump Parliament • Rye House Plot • Second Anglo-Dutch War • Slavery • Soviet Union • Statistical Abstract of the United States • The Commonwealth of Oceana • The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution • The New York Times • The Normans (TV series) • Theodore Roosevelt • The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates • Thomas Hobbes • Thomas Jefferson • Two Treatises of Government • Uncertainty • Viscount Molesworth • Whiggism • Whig history • Whig Party (United States) • Whigs (British political party) • William Lloyd Garrison • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6245-0 / 1400862450
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6245-0 / 9781400862450