1. Bernard Bailyn, Context in History, North American Studies Bernard Bailyn Lecture 1 (Melbourne, 1995).
2. J. G. A. Pocock, Politics, Language and Time: essays on political thought and history (New York, 1973).
3. Quentin Skinner, Visions of Politics, 3 Vols, Vol. 1: Regarding Method (Cambridge, 2002).
4. J. G. A. Pocock, Virtue, Commerce, and History: essays on political thought and history, chiefly in the eighteenth century (Cambridge, 1985), pp. 61–8.
5. John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, ed. Peter Laslett (Cambridge, 1988).