Algernon Sidney and the English Republic 16231677 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780521611954
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; c 1600 to c 1700; History: World; History; History - General History; England; Europe - Great Britain - General; General; Western Europe - General; Biography & Autobiography : General; History / Europe / Western; History / Great Britain; History : Europe - Great Britain - General; Biography; Charles II, 1660-1685; Great Britain; Political scientists; Politicians
First sentence: Anyone attempting a large-scale study of Algernon Sidney at the moment has to contend with two historiographical problems: eighteenth- and nineteenth-century distortion, and twentieth-century neglect.