Writings on Standing Armies

Klappentext Whether arms should be entrusted to a "standing army" (that is, a body of soldiers kept permanently available for the service of the supreme magistrate and financed out of public funds), or whether they should rather be reserved to a citizen militia, is a central theme in a political tradition that descends from Machiavelli. Writings on Standing Armies is a newly collected, authoritative edition of the most important late-seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century pamphlets on the standing armies controversy of 1697-98. David Womersley's introduction situates these texts in the European debate about standing armies as opposed to militias and places them in the narrower context of specifically English altercations.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: David (EDT) Womersley
• Con la collaborazione di: David Womersley (Editore)
• Editore: Liberty fund usa
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 13.03.2020
• EAN: 9780865979123
• ISBN: 978-0-86597-912-3
• Pagine: 746
• Serie: Thomas Hollis Library
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Veicoli, aerei , imbarcazioni, viaggi aerospaziali > Imbarcazioni, aerei e veicoli militari; Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Altro; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Tecnica > Altro