Imperial Republics: Revolution, War and Territorial Expansion from the English Civil War to the French Revolution

Edward Andrew

Published by University of Toronto Press 2011

Imperial Republics

Revolution, War and Territorial Expansion from the English Civil War to the French Revolution

Edward Andrew

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442695863

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Imperial Republics is a sophisticated, wide-ranging examination of the intellectual origins of republican movements, and explains why revolutionaries felt the need to 'don the toga' in laying the foundation for their own uprisings.

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Andrew Edward :

Edward G. Andrew is a professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.

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Brandon Turner:

‘Imperial Republics is a lively, effective, and important book that will find a well-deserved home on the shelf next to the contemporary neorepublican histories it intends to complement and interrogate.’

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Rome in the Eighteenth Century Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Machiavelli on Imperial Republics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
2. Republicanism and the English Civil War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
3. Catonic Virtue, Sweet Commerce, and Imperial Rivalry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
4. From Colony to Nation to Empire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
5. From Caesar to Brutus to Augustus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
6. Le Royaume and La Patrie: Rome in Eighteenth-Century France Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
7. The Role of Brutus in the French Revolution Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
8. Imperial Pride and Anxiety: Gibbon’s Roman Empire and Ferguson’s Roman Republic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 224

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Published: November 8, 2012
ISBN: 9781442695863