A trumpet of sedition
Subtitle: political theory and the rise of capitalism, 1509-1688
By: Ellen Meiksins Wood and Neal Wood.
Contributors: Wood, Neal.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Washington Square, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Political science -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century; Political science -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Economics -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century; Capitalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century; Economics -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Capitalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
Description: A Trumpet of Sedition surveys canonical texts by thinkers such as Thomas More, Richard Hooker, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke, as well as the ideas of radicals like the Levellers and Gerrard Winstanley and less well known but important figures. The authors explain these texts in clear and lively prose, while situating them in their social and political context in new and original ways and contrasting the English case to others in Europe.

By examining political ideas not merely as free-floating abstractions but as living encounters with historical experience - the formation of the English state and the rise of agrarian capitalism - A Trumpet of Sedition illuminates the roots of contemporary Western political thought.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-143) and index.