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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 1987 © Cambridge University Press
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  • 9781139085373 (ebook)
  • 9780521303521 (hardcover)
  • 9780521316439 (paper)
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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page vii)
  • Preface to the First Edition (page xiii)
  • Part One The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law
    • I Introductory: the French Prelude to Modern Historiography (page 1)
    • II The Common-law Mind: Custom and the Immemorial (page 30)
    • III The Common-law Mind: the Absence of a Basis of Comparison (page 56)
    • IV The Discovery of Feudalism: French and Scottish Historians (page 70)
    • V The Discovery of Feudalism: Sir Henry Spelman (page 91)
    • VI Interregnum: the Oceana of James Harrington (page 124)
    • VII Interregnum: the First Royalist Reaction and the Response of Sir Matthew Hale (page 148)
    • VIII The Brady Controversy (page 182)
    • IX Conclusion: 1688 in the History of Historiography (page 229)
  • Part Two The Ancient Constitution Revisited: a Retrospect from 1986
    • I Historiography and Common Law (page 255)
    • II Civil War and Interregnum (page 306)
    • III Restoration, Revolution and Oligarchy (page 335)
  • Index (page 389)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
ENHR 105.416 (Jul. 1990): 733-735 http://www.jstor.org/stable/570799
HJ 30.4 (Dec. 1987): 955-970 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2639128
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