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James Harrington

English political theorist and author of Oceana.

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Also known as Harrington

First appearance: religion and the rise of capitalism

James Harrington shows up with force in The Growth of Individualism. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Cited for his famous passage describing how the ruin of the feudal nobility by the Tudors democratized land ownership and prepared the way for the bourgeois republic.
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In The Growth of Individualism: Cited for his famous passage describing how the ruin of the feudal nobility by the Tudors democratized land ownership and prepared the way for the bourgeois republic.

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