The ancient constitution and the feudal law : a study of English historical thought in the seventeenth century :a reissue with a retrospect / J.G.A. Pocock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pocock, J. G. A. (John Greville Agard), 1924- author.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional history--Great Britain.

Constitutional history.

Political science--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 402 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

The Ancient Constitution & the Feudal Law

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Professor Pocock's subject is how the seventeenth century looked at its own past. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one of the most important modes of studying the past was the study of the law - the historical outlook which arose in each nation was in part the product of its law, and therefore, in turn of its history. In clarifying the relation of the historical outlook of seventeenth-century Englishmen to the study of law, and pointing out its political implication, Pocock shows how history's ground was laid for a more philosophical approach in the eighteenth century.

Contents:

pt. 1. The ancient constitution and the feudal law

pt. 2. The ancient constitution revisited : a retrospect from 1986.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781139085373

1139085379

9780511870064

051187006X

9780511571459

0511571453

Publisher Number:

2027/heb07919 hdl