Seventeenth Century England: Capitalism, Puritanism and the Rise of Liberalism

• English Literature- 17th Century--John Hopkins University Library
• Krannert Art Museum at the Univertity of Illinois
• Le Web Louvre--(Have no fear like most Web sites, it is in English)--One of the very best sites on the Web. It has won awards, in 1994. as the best site on the Web.
• On Line Masterpieces--The art of a period is very reflective and suggestive of changes influencing social and political theory. For example look at the portrayal of facial character and nature in the paintings of the 14th century as compared with the paintings of the 16th century.
• Renaissance and Baroque Architecture This is course in architectural history. There are a wonderful set of images scannced from slides. It gives you some of the flavor with a series of images of archicteural style called Classicism. This would have been common to the period of Hobbes. See the section under "England accepts classicism." (If you click on the small image it will expand into a larger image.) A nice page

Thomas Hobbes

• Economic Classics-John Hopkins University Library--They have a large holding of works on economics, slavery, bibles, etc.
• The English Server---Government, Law and Society. This is a famous site with many of the crucial literary and philosophical texts of our history. They have works of Hobbes and Locke, et. al.
• Thomas Hobbes Collected Works
• Thomas HobbesBrief statement about Hobbes as a modern moral philosopher.
• Hobbesian argument for the State--This is a useful and insightful essay by Chris Bertram
• Short biography of Hobbes
• Hobbes--Books on Line
• Hobbes's Leviathan--In case you misplace your hard cover copy here in one online.
• Hobbes and Locke in Dialogue--This is a televised debate between Hobbes and Locke In 2093 via Time-Warp productions.

John Locke

• Short biography of Locke
• Economic Classics--John Hopkins University Library--They have a large holding on economics, slavery bibles etc.
• The English Server---Government, Law and Society. This is a famous site with many of the crucial literary and philosophical texts of our history. They have works of Hobbes and Locke, et. al.
• Hobbes's Leviathan--In case you misplace your hard cover copy here in one online.
• Locke and Hobbes in Dialogue--This is a televised debate between Hobbes and Locke In 2093 via Time-Warp productions.
• Works of John Locke--These are some of the writings of John Locke that are available to read and peruse online, ie. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and his Essay Concerning Toleration

Jonathan Swift One of the greatest satirist and prose writers in the English language.

• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift--Social satire disquised as a travelogue. His insights continually strike home. He was a master or seeing through our charades.

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