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
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