Edward Andrew

Imperial Republics

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

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781442643314
• ISBN-10: 1442643315
• Artikelnr.: 33805299

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction. 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.
Conclusion