Title: The tree of commonwealth, 1450-1793
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.
Subjects: Politics and government, Democracy, History, Great britain, history, modern period, 1485-, Great britain, history, medieval period, 1066-1485
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 1485-1603, 1603-1714, 18th century