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Against throne and altar : Machiavelli and political theory under the English Republic /

"Modern republicanism - distinguished from its classical counterpart by its commercial character and jealous distrust of those in power, by its use of representative institutions, and by its employment of a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances - owes an immense debt to the r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rahe, Paul Anthony
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: Machiavelli in the English Revolution
  • Machiavelli's populist turn
  • The ravages of an ambitious idleness
  • The classical republicanism of John Milton
  • The liberation of captive minds
  • Marchamont Nedham and the regicide Republic
  • Servant of the rump
  • The good old cause
  • Thomas Hobbes's republican youth
  • The making of a modern monarchist
  • The very model of a modern moralist
  • The Hobbesian republicanism of James Harrington.