An Account of Denmark offers modern readers a detailed look at a country in decline, as seen and judged through the eyes of the late-seventeenth-century Irish ambassador Robert Molesworth. Known as th
Marchamont Nedham (1620-78) wrote The Excellencie Of a Free-State during the only period of republican rule in English history. After the execution of King Charles I in 1649, the monarchy and the Hous
A Letter Concerning Toleration and Other Writings brings together the principal writings on religious toleration and freedom of expression by one of the greatest philosophers in the Anglophone tradit
In 1759, at the height of the Seven Years’ War, when Great Britain was suffering a series of military reversals, Montagu considered his country’s plight in an historical context formed by the study of
