Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-x

Editorial introduction

pp 1-10

Part I - Church, court and counsel

pp 11-12

1 - The Henrician age

pp 13-46

2 - Elizabethan political thought

pp 47-79

3 - Kingship, counsel and law in early Stuart Britain

pp 80-116

Part II - Dissolution, restoration and revolution

pp 117-118

4 - The Puritan Revolution: a historiographical essay

pp 119-145

5 - Interregnum and Restoration

pp 146-179

6 - The later Stuart age

pp 180-208

Part III - Commerce, empire and history

pp 209-210

7 - Politics and politeness in the reigns of Anne and the early Hanoverians

pp 211-245

8 - Political thought in the English-speaking Atlantic, 1760–1790: (i) The imperial crisis

pp 246-282

9 - Political thought in the English-speaking Atlantic, 1760–1790: (ii) Empire, revolution and an end of early modernity

pp 283-318

Epilogue

pp 319-320

10 - Why should history matter? Political theory and the history of discourse

pp 321-357

Index

pp 358-373