Algernon Sidney and the Republican heritage in England and America /

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Author / Creator:Houston, Alan Craig, 1957- author.
Imprint:Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1991]
©1991
Description:1 online resource (350 pages)
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library
Princeton legacy library.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11276981
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ISBN:9781400862450
1400862450
9780691078601
0691078602
0691602069
9780691602066
Notes:Based on the author's thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-328) and index.
In English.
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Summary: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,
Other form:Print version: Houston, Alan Craig. Algernon Sidney and the Republican heritage in England and America. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1991] viii, 335 pages ; 24 cm. Princeton legacy library 9780691602066
Standard no.:10.1515/9781400862450