Algernon Sidney, The Noble Republican
Irene Coltman Brown focusses on a staunch 17th-century republican prepared to die for his beliefs.
A.C. Ewald, The Life and Times of the Hon. Algernon Sidney 1622 – 1683 (London, 1873)G.W. Meadley, Memoirs of Algernon Sidney (London, 1813) J.R. Jones, The First Whigs. The Politics of the Exclusion Crisis 1678 – 1683 (Oxford University Press, 1961) Z.S. Fink, The Classical Republicans (North Western University Press, 1962) Caroline Robbins, The Eighteenth-Century Commonwealthman (Harvard University Press, 1959) Richard Ashcraft, 'Revolutionary Politics and Locke's Two Treatises on Government', Political Theory , November 1980 About the Author: Irene Coltman Brown is Acting Director of Studies at Toynbee Hall in East London.
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