James Harrington : an intellectual biography / Rachel Hammersley.

"Despite not being an active participant in the English Civil War, seventeenth-century political thinker James Harrington exercised an important influence on the ideas and politics of that crucial period of history. In The Commonwealth of Oceana he sought to explain why civil war had broken out in 1...

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Main Author: Hammersley, Rachel, 1974- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
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Physical Description:xvii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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