Common Wealth, Common Good by Benedict Wagner-Rundell
Common Wealth, Common Good is a study of the political discourse of the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It argues that the Polish-Lithuanian political tradition was preoccupied during this period with moral concepts, in particular that of public virtue, understood as the subordination of private interests to the common good. Polish-Lithuanian politicians and commentators analysed their politics primarily in moral terms, arguing that the Commonwealth existed for the promotion of virtue, and depended for its survival upon on the retention of virtue among rulers and citizens. They analysed the acute political dysfunction that the Commonwealth experienced from the late seventeenth century as the result of corruption in the body politic. Proposals for reform of the Commonwealth's government aimed at reversing this corruption and restoring virtuous government in the service of the common good.-
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Names and Naming Patterns in England 1538-1700
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The Origins of Military Thought
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Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England
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The Problem of Mental Deficiency
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Propaganda and the Role of the State in Inter-War Britain
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The Finance of Canal Building in Eighteenth-century England
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Politics, Polemic, and Political Thought During the French Wars of Religion
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Scandinavian Kings in the British Isles, 850-80
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Luxury and Power
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A Century of Asia Minor Refugees in Greece
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English Society and the Crusade, 1216-1307
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Transnational Women's Liberation
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The British Campaign in Ireland, 1919-21
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British Philanthropy in the Globalizing World
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The Age of the Efendiyya
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Electric News in Colonial Algeria
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The Gospel According to Renan
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Political Community in Revolutionary Pennsylvania, 1774-1800
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The Crisis of Religious Toleration in Imperial Russia
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Sisters and Sisterhood
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The Meaning of White
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The Earl of Essex and Late Elizabethan Political Culture
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Music in the Holocaust
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British Jewry, Zionism, and the Jewish State, 1936-1956
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The East German Leadership and the Division of Germany
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Kingship and Propaganda
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Racial Crossings
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Hindenburg
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Classical Learning in Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic, 1690-1750
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God and Progress
Common Wealth, Common Good: The Politics of Virtue in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania, [is] a fine new addition to the growing anglophone scholarship on the history of the commonwealth* Renaissance Quarterly *
Benedict Wagner-Rundell received a D.Phil in Modern History from the University of Oxford in 2008, having previously studied at Magdalen College, Oxford, and at the Jagiellonian University of Kraków, Poland. Since completing his D.Phil, he has worked in public service, at HM Treasury and most recently as First Secretary at the British Embassy in Washington, DC.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198735342 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198735340 |
| Title | Common Wealth, Common Good |
| Author | Benedict Wagner-Rundell |
| Series | Oxford Historical Monographs |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2015-03-05 |
| Number of pages | 204 |
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