The Invention of the Modern Republic
- Editor: Biancamaria Fontana, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
- Date Published: March 2007
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521033763
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Why are republics nowadays the most common form of political organization, and the one most readily associated with modern democracy? In The Invention of the Modern Republic, a team of highly distinguished historians of ideas answers this question, and examines the origins of republican governments in America and Europe. Given the renewed interest at present in the functioning and evolution of democratic institutions--especially in their relation with market economies--the issues discussed here have a powerful contemporary resonance.
Read more- Major collection featuring some very big names e.g. Furet, Dunn, Stedman Jones
- Topical theme - republicanism very much in contemporary agenda
- Broad international and comparative focus
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"This is a very able edited and well-written book, not constrained by the enterprise which it defines. The authors illuminate in a great many ways the history they have chosen to tell." J.G.A. Pocock, Times Literary Supplement
See more reviews"This is a fascinating work.... Assuredly, it is a stimulating collection of scholarly essays on the intellectual history of the republic and republican ideology." Ken Hendrickson, Social History
"With the renewed interest indemocratic institutions and the ever growing passion to export democracy throughout the international community, The Invention of the Modern Republic is both timely and instructive. The Invention of the Modern Republic makes a significant contribution to our understanding of this type of regime. I highly recommend it to your attention." David A. Freeman, The European Studies Journal
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- Date Published: March 2007
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521033763
- length: 248 pages
- dimensions: 234 x 154 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.355kg
- contains: 1 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: the invention of the modern republic Biancamaria Fontana
1. Ancient and modern republicanism: 'mixed constitution' and 'ephors' Wilfried Nippel
2. Checks, balances and boundaries: the separation of powers in the constitutional debate of 1787 Bernard Manin
3. From Utopia to repulicanism: the case of Diderot Gerolamo Imbruglia
4. Cordeliers and Girondins: the prehistory of the republic? Patrice Gueniffey
5. The constitutional republicanism of Emmanuel Sieyès Pasquale Pasquino
6. The Thermidorian republic and its principles Biancamaria Fontana
7. Francesco Mario Pagano's 'Republic of Virtue': Naples 1799 Anthony Pagden
8. Kant, the French revolution and the definition of the republic Gareth Stedman Jones
9. French historians and the reconstruction of the republican tradition, 1800–1848 François Furet
10. The republic of universal suffrage Pierre Rosanvallon
11. The identity of the bourgeois liberal republic John Dunn
Bibliography
Index.
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