Overview: Explains how political thinkers in England, Scotland, and North America reshaped Western thinking about government.elaborates on the ideas that society was composed of sovereign individuals endowed wi.This book summarizes and explains the way in which political thinkers in England, Scotland, and North America reshaped Western thinking about government and citizens. Although the ideas of the Anglo-American Enlightenment can be traced back, in embryo, to the Italian Renaissance and the Protestant Reformation, it was responses to wars – the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) and the English
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