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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970792103321

Titolo

Anthony Ashley Cooper, first earl of Shaftesbury, 1621-1683 / / edited by John Spurr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-4094-8218-9

1-317-18052-6

1-317-18051-8

1-315-56727-X

1-283-04810-8

9786613048103

1-4094-2645-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SpurrJohn

Disciplina

941.063092

Soggetti

Great Britain History Charles II, 1660-1685

Great Britain History Restoration, 1660-1688

Great Britain Politics and government 1660-1688

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Shaftesbury and the Seventeenth Century; 2 'Mechanic Tyrannie': Anthony Ashley Cooper and the English Republic; 3 Shaftesbury and the Royal Supremacy; 4 Annual Parliaments and Aristocratic Whiggism; 5 Shaftesbury's Aristocratic Empire; 6 Shaftesbury and the Politics of Religion; 7 The Unscholastic Statesman: Locke and the Earl of Shaftesbury; 8 England's 'little sisters without breasts': Shaftesbury and Scotland and Ireland; 9 Shaftesbury and the Exclusion Crisis; 10 Shaftesbury and the Rye House Plot

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Sommario/riassunto

This book investigates the life and reputation of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, Restoration England's most important politician. As well as re-evaluating his well-known early republican sympathies, the Cabal, the Popish Plot and the politics of party faction



- other less familiar themes are explored such as his involvement in the expansion of England's overseas colonies, his relationship with John Locke, his political connections with Scotland and Ireland and his high profile public reputation. These ten leading scholars present a unique picture of this intriguing political figur