The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman: Studies in the Transmission, Development, and Circumstance of English Liberal Thought from the Restoration of

By Caroline Robbins

Book Overview

In this volume, Caroline Robbins adeptly presents a history of the Commonwealthmen, "a gifted and active minority of the population of the British Isles, who kept alive, during an age of extraordinary complacency and legislative inactivity, a demand for increased liberty of conscience."

Caroline Robbins (1903-1999) taught history at Bryn Mawr College from 1929 to 1971 and was chairman of the department from 1957 to 1969.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865974276
• ISBN13: 9780865974272
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Amagi
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5