# James Harrington — Religion and the Rise of Capitalism character guide

> James Harrington in Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by R. H. Tawney.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Harrington

**First appearance:** 0003-religion-and-the-rise-of-capitalism

## Who they are

English political theorist and author of Oceana.

## In the story

### [The Growth of Individualism](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/religion_and_the_rise_of_capitalism_se/chapters/iii-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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