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...
Of the Previous Edition . . . ""Professor Robbins' book, a monumental piece of mature scholarship . . . is a history of liberal ideas and the men ...
