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ISBN: | 9781400862450 1400862450 9780691078601 0691078602 0691602069 9780691602066
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Notes: | Based on the author's thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-328) and index. In English. Print version record.
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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,
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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
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Standard no.: | 10.1515/9781400862450
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