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Britannia 1066-1884

Part of the Studies in Public Choice Book Series (volume 30)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-04684-6

ISBN: 978-3-319-04683-9

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

May 1, 2014

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Chapter 1A Public Choice Model of Absolutism in Medieval England: 1066–1485

Rowley, Charles K.; Wu, Bin

Pages: 1 –22

[Consider the standard layout for the game of chess. The king is placed at the center of the back row protected from the left by his queen. His bishops stand next in place beside both monarchs. His knights stand beside his bishops. His castles stand at the board’s edge beside his knights....
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Chapter 2The Tudor Dynasty: Perfecting Absolutism in the Era of Renaissance and Reformation, 1485–1603

Rowley, Charles K.; Wu, Bin

Pages: 23 –40

[As the sixteenth century dawned, extraordinary changes affected the whole of Europe. For some 200 years, the Renaissance had driven thought in Italy. Now, it flourished in a revival of the traditions of ancient Greece and Rome (Churchill, A history of the English-speaking peoples: The New World,...
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Chapter 3The Stuart Doom: The Hinge of Fate for Absolutist Autocracy, 1603–1688

Rowley, Charles K.; Wu, Bin

Pages: 41 –68

[The turn of the century was a time of relative economic prosperity in England. Ancient marketplaces were slowly giving way to shops in the towns and even in the villages as local commerce evolved. A new middle class was emerging below the nobility but above the peasants, in the form of...
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Chapter 4The Seventeenth Century Philosophical Divide: Unity or Liberty

Rowley, Charles K.; Wu, Bin

Pages: 69 –96

[Two great antitheses dominate the political thought of all time: anarchy versus unity and oppression versus freedom (Bobbio, Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition, p. 29, 1909/1993). At no time in English history was the intellectual struggle between the two antitheses more pronounced, or...
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Chapter 5The Demise of the Divine Right of Kings, the Decline of Monarchic Power, and the Rise of Parliament, 1689–1775

Rowley, Charles K.; Wu, Bin

Pages: 97 –134

[The period of English and British history that this chapter places under a political–economic microscope embraces the reigns of six monarchs—William III and Mary II (1689–1694), William III (1694–1702), Anne I (1702–1714), George I (1714–1727), George II (1727–1760), and George III (1760–1820)....
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Chapter 6Hugo Grotius, John Locke, Cato’s Letters, and the American Revolution

Rowley, Charles K.; Wu, Bin

Pages: 135 –147

[On June 30, 1688, a document was secretly dispatched to Prince Willem of Orange, inviting him to sail to England with a military force. The document advised that England would rally to his army in rebellion against the government of James II. The invitation was signed in cipher by Devonshire,...
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Chapter 7The Zenith of Classical Liberal Philosophy in Britannia: From the Scottish Enlightenment to John Stuart Mill

Rowley, Charles K.; Wu, Bin

Pages: 149 –165

[By 1885, Britannia was the richest nation in the world in terms of per capita income and wealth. In such relative terms, 1885 would prove to be the peak of Britannia’s economic success and, in terms of our criteria, close to the peak in terms of political and economic freedoms. This explains why...

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