James Harrington (1611-1677) was a pioneer in applying the methods of Machiavelli and other civic humanists to English political society and its landed structur
James Harrington's brief career as a political and historical theorist spans the last years of the Cromwellian Protectorate and the Restoration of 1660. This vo
Despite not being an active participant in the English Civil War, seventeenth-century political thinker James Harrington exercised an important influence on the