Early Modern Liberalism

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Cambridge University Press, Nov 13, 1997 - History - 314 pages
While the term "liberalism" was not applied to political thought or political parties in England until the late eighteenth century, the author argues that its central ideas were formulated by seventeenth-century English writers in defiance of their society's norms, and then transmitted to the American colonies. In this study Annabel Patterson is particularly concerned with the means and agents of transmission, and with those who sought to ensure that the liberal canon would be preserved, dispersed and republished.

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Contents

Introduction I
1
Thomas Holliss republic of letters
27
Miltons sonnets
62
Read this trial
90
Algernon Sidney
129
Anecdotes
153
Secret history
183
Reading Locke
232
reader extraordinary
279
Index
306
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