Description |
1 online resource (x, 309 pages). |
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text file |
Series |
Ideas in context ; 75
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Ideas in context ; 75.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-299) and index. |
Contents |
Fortescue's world -- St. German's world -- Reformation and the body politic -- Commonwealth and common law -- Puritanism and Anglicanism -- James, kingship, and religion -- Law, politics, and Sir Edward Coke -- The constitutionalist revolution. |
Summary |
In the first such study for a generation, Alan Cromartie gives an innovative account of English constitutional ideas from the mid-fifteenth century to the time of Charles I, showing how the emergence of grand claims for common law, the country's strange unwritten legal system, shaped England's cultural development. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Executive power -- England -- History.
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Executive power. |
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England. |
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History. |
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Common law -- England -- History.
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Common law. |
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Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- History.
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Great Britain. |
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Kings and rulers. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Cromartie, Alan. Constitutionalist revolution. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2006 (DLC) 2006001848 |
ISBN |
0511241488 (electronic book) |
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9780511241482 (electronic book) |
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9780511242083 (electronic book) |
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0511242085 (electronic book) |
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0511240449 |
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9780511240447 |
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0511240961 |
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9780511240966 |
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0521782694 (Cloth) |
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0521788110 (Paper) |
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