Imperial Republics : : Revolution, War and Territorial Expansion from the English Civil War to the French Revolution / / Edward Andrew.
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 United Sta...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction: Rome in the Eighteenth Century
- 1. Machiavelli on Imperial Republics
- 2. Republicanism and the English Civil War
- 3. Catonic Virtue, Sweet Commerce, and Imperial Rivalry
- 4. From Colony to Nation to Empire
- 5. From Caesar to Brutus to Augustus
- 6. Le Royaume and La Patrie: Rome in Eighteenth-Century France
- 7. The Role of Brutus in the French Revolution
- 8. Imperial Pride and Anxiety: Gibbon's Roman Empire and Ferguson's Roman Republic
- Conclusion
- Index