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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Annabel M Patterson |
ISBN: | 0521592607 9780521592604 |
OCLC Number: | 36170488 |
Description: | xi, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | 1. Deeds of peace: Thomas Hollis's republic of letters -- 2. "Prejudice ... sways a world of people": Milton's sonnets -- 3. Unjust tribunals I: "Read this trial" -- 4. Unjust tribunals II: Algernon Sidney -- 5. Anecdotes -- 6. Secret history -- 7. Reading Locke -- 8. John Adams: reader extraordinary. |
Series Title: | Ideas in context, 48. |
Responsibility: | Annabel Patterson. |
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Abstract:
Focusing on the transmission to the colonies of seventeenth-century English liberal ideas, Annabel Patterson rediscovers an important phase in the development of liberal thought. The author is particularly concerned with the ways in which liberal ideas were transmitted and with those who sought to ensure the survival of the liberal canon.
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