The tree of commonwealth, 1450-1793
By: Whitney R.D. Jones.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Madison, [N.J.]; London; Cranbury, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
Subjects: Democracy -- Great Britain -- History.; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1485-1603.; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1603-1714.; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 18th century.
Description: "This book delineates the nature and evolution of the concept of the commonwealth in early modern England, from its late-medieval roots to its virtual disintegration against the vastly different background of the late eighteenth century. In part an outgrowth of the ideas explored in the author's publications upon mid-Tudor and late-eighteenth-century England, it rests also on many years of research into the Elizabethan, Stuart, and early-eighteenth-century eras.

While full account is taken of authoritative secondary works, including recent scholarly controversies, the book's strength comes from the detailed illustration from original sources of its comparative analysis."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 356-382) and index.