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