Bolingbroke: Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) - Softcover

Bolingbroke, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521586976 ISBN 13: 9780521586979

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Synopsis

Bolingbroke: Political Writings provides the first accessible, modernized and annotated texts of three of the most important works in eighteenth-century British political thought. These works, the Dissertation upon Parties, the letter "On the Spirit of Patriotism" and The Idea of the Patriot King together formed the first coherent platform of a political opposition movement in Anglo-American politics and influenced not only radicals in Britain, but the American Founding Fathers and the French Revolutionaries.

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About the Author

David Armitage is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Harvard University. He is the author or editor of thirteen books, including The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000), Foundations of Modern International Thought (2013), Milton and Republicanism (co-edited, 1995), Bolingbroke: Political Writings (edited, 1997), British Political Thought in History, Literature and Theory (co-edited, 2006) and Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought (co-edited, 2009), all from Cambridge University Press. A prize-winning author and teacher, he has lectured on six continents and his works have been translated into Chinese, Danish, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.

Review

"The volume is a useful starting point for anyone interested in Bolingborke and his context." Ethics

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0521586976
• ISBN 13: 9780521586979
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 354
• Editor: Armitage David