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

"Republicanism and imperialism are typically understood to be located at opposite ends of the political spectrum. In Imperial Republics, Edward G. Andrew challenges the supposed incompatibility of these theories with regard to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century revolutions in England, the Unit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Andrew, Edward, 1941- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2011
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Rome in the Eighteenth Century
  • Chapter One. Machiavelli in the Eighteenth Century
  • Chapter Two. Republicanism in the English Civil War
  • Chapter Three. Catonic Virtue, Sweet Commerce and Imperial Rivalry
  • Chapter Four. Colony to Nation to Empire
  • Chapter Five. Caesar to Brutus to Augustus
  • Chapter Six. Le Royaume and la Patrie; France in the Eighteenth Century
  • Chapter Seven. The Role of Brutus in the French Revolution
  • Chapter Eight. Imperial Pride and Anxiety: Gibbon's Roman Empire and Ferguson's Roman Republic.