"Oliver Cromwell had not a drop of royal blood in him. Yet in 1657, prompted by the political chaos that followed the execution of Charles I and inspired by a belief that a return to monarchy was the only way to stabilize the nation, parliament offered Cromwell the crown of Brit…
The fourteen essays in this volume look at both the theory and practice of monarchial governments from the Thirty Years War up until die time of the French Revolution, Contellebutors aim to unraved the constructs of àbsolutian' and m̀onarchism' examining how the power and authort…
The 'great man' of later Greek historical thought is the long product of traceable changes in ancient ideas about the meaning and impact of an individual life. At least as early as the birth of the Athenian democracy, questions about the ownership of the motion of history were b…
