This book is a collection of political writings by James Harrington, a seventeenth-century English political theorist. The book includes his major work, Oceana, a utopian vision of a republic divided…

Published in 1656, The Oceana is a political treatise by English philosopher James Harrington. Influenced by the works of Plato and Machiavelli, Harrington's book proposes a unique form of government…

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…