@booklet {7052, title = {The Common-wealth of Oceana}, year = {1656}, note = {

Rpt. in Works. The Oceana and Other Works. With an Account of His Life by John Toland (London: Ptd. for T. Beket, and T. Cadell, and T. Evans, 1771), 31-210; rpt. Aalen, Germany: Scientia Verlag, 1963; in The Political Works of James Harrington. Ed. J.G.A. Pocock (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1977), 155-359; and in The Commonwealth of Oceana and A System of Politics. Ed. J.G.A. Pocock (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 1-266.

}, month = {1656}, publisher = {Ptd. by J. Streater for Livewell Chapman}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Eutopia. Classic work on the reform of England stressing the need for a balanced constitution. Argues for an \“agrarian law\”, a limit on the size landed estates to reduce inequality. The Introduction contains a two page utopia suggesting that Jews should be settled in Ireland. See also 1660 Harrington and Decrees and Orders of the Committee of Safety of Oceana. London: Ptd. 1659, a satire on Oceana.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {James Harrington (1611-77)} }