The Political Imagination in History: Essays concerning J.G.A. Pocock

By D.N. DeLuna and D.N. (ed.) DeLune

Book by D.N. DeLuna This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934084026
• ISBN13: 9781934084021
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Owlworks
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

looking at a lost Britain

17th and 18th century Britain are a long way from us now. But the historian Pocock was instrumental in recent years to bring that Britain alive and make some of its themes understandable to us. This book of essays celebrate both Pocock and that faraway place. So some essays look at the idea of an "ancient constitution". It was a central idea of those years. To some it was a burning issue. Decrying the inevitable compromises made by the government and parliament, by harking back to some imagined inviolable principles that undergirdded and legitimised the government. The modern reader might notice that the very fact that such an argument could take place in the 17th century Britain was implicitly far more progressive than much of the rest of the world. Where autocratic rule was the norm.