The eighteenth-century commonwealthman.

Summary: "Bibliographical commentary": pages 389-398. Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 403-443) Introduction -- Some seventeenth-century commonwealthmen -- The Whigs of the Revolution and of the Sacheverell trial -- Robert Molesworth and his friends in England, 1693-1727 -- The case of Ireland -- The interest of Scotland -- The contribution of nonconformity -- Staunch Whigs and Republicans of the reign of George II (1727-1760) -- Honest Whigs under George III, 1761-1789 -- Conclusion.

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Physical Description: print
xi, 462 pages ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1959.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	"Bibliographical commentary": pages 389-398. Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 403-443).
Formatted Contents Note:	1. Introduction : The name of a commonwealthman ; Ideas ; Dissemination of the ideas ; Measure of achievement -- 2. Some seventeenth-century commonwealthman : Links with the interregnum ; Neville and Harrington ; Sidney ; Ludlow and Nedham ; Milton and Marvell -- 3. The Whigs of the revolution and of the Sacheverell traial : Whig and commonwealthman in '88 ; Locke and Newton ; James Tyrrell and Richard Cumberland, Bishop of Peterborough ; John, Lord Somers and the Whigs of the Sacheverell trial ; The old and the new Whigs -- 4. Robert Molesworth and his friends in England, 1963-1727 : "Old Whigs" ; Robert Molesworth's life and friends ; An account of Denmark ; Projects and reforms ; Trenchard and Gordon, two independent Whigs ; Toland and Shaftesbury -- 5. The case of Ireland : Liberal ideas before Grattan and Tone ; William Molyneux and his case of Ireland ; Brisk asserters of Irish liberties: King, Maxwell, Dobbs, and Swift ; Reflections and resolutions proper for the gentlemen of Ireland: Molesworth, Madden, Berkeley, Prior ; Civil and religious liberty -- 6. The interest of Scotland : Scotland in 1700 ; Buchana and Fletcher ; Francis Hutcheson and Adam Smith ; Ferguson, the Rankenians, Wallace ; Later Republicans at Aberdeen and Glasgow -- Blackwell, Ogilvie and Millar -- 7. The contribution of nonconformity : Unpopularity, schism and decline ; Schism: Barrington and Bradbury ; Historians, preachers and tutors : Neal -- the historians and journalists ; Foster ; Watts ; Grove ; Doddridge. Poets, publishers, laymen -- 8. Staunch whigs and republicans of the reign of George II : Complacency and politics ; Parliamentmen, historical, constitutional and legal commentators ; Anglican innovators and reformers -- the hoadlyites ; Edmund law and John Brown ; Thomas Pownall's principles of polity -- 9. Honest whigs under George III, 1761-1789 : Character of radicalism in the period ; The Blackburne connection ; Price, Priestley and some other dessenters ; Political disquisitions, societies and associations.
Awards Note:	American Historical Association Herbert Baxter Adams Prize, 1960.