Against throne and altar
Subtitle: Machiavelli and political theory under the English Republic
By: Paul A. Rahe.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780521883900
Subjects: Machiavelli, Niccolò, -- 1469-1527 -- Influence; Republicanism -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1649-1660; Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Machiavelli in the English Revolution; title: Machiavelli's populist turn; title: The ravages of an ambitious idleness; title: The classical republicanism of John Milton; title: The liberation of captive minds; title: Marchamont Nedham and the regicide Republic; title: Servant of the rump; title: The good old cause; title: Thomas Hobbes's republican youth; title: The making of a modern monarchist; title: The very model of a modern moralist; title: The Hobbesian republicanism of James Harrington.