Offers an extended essay which seeks, in its first part, to excavate and vindicate the neo-Roman theory of free citizens and free states as it developed in earl... » 

Offers an extended essay which seeks, in its first part, to excavate and vindicate the neo-Roman theory of free citizens and free states as it developed in early modern Britain. This analysis leads on to a defence of the nature, purposes and goals of intellectual history and the history of ideas. «