Struggle for Sovereignty, Volumes 1 & 2: Seventeenth-Century English Political Tracts

ISBN-13: 9780865971875 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 1180 str.

Joyce Malcolm

Opis

The writings presented in two-volume set, are the political tracts of the English speaking peoples in the 17th century which established principles of governance and liberty that could be seen to have not only benefited themselves but also the founders of the American Republic. Included in the text is work by Coke, Sydney and Shaftesbury. The first volume consists of pamphlets written from the reign of James I to the Restoration, 1620-1660. The second volume encompasses writings from the Restoration through the revolution of 1688-1689.