Machiavelli's liberal republican legacy

Machiavelli's liberal republican legacy [electronic resource] / edited by Paul A. Rahe. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. - 1 online resource (lxii, 326 p.)

Title from e-book t.p. screen (viewed June 24, 2010).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Machiavelli's liberal republican legacy / Paul A. Rahe -- Prologue: Machiavelli's rapacious republicanism / Markus Fischer -- Machiavelli in the English revolution / Paul A. Rahe -- The philosophy of liberty : Locke's Machiavellian teaching / Margaret Michelle Barnes Smith -- Muted and manifest English Machiavellism : the reconciliation of Machiavellian republicanism with liberalism in Sidney's Discourses concerning government and Trenchard's and Gordon's Cato's letters / Vickie B. Sullivan -- Getting our bearings : Machiavelli and Hume / John W. Danford -- The Machiavellian spirit of Montesquieu's liberal republic / Paul Carrese -- Benjamin Franklin's "Machiavellian" civic virtue / Steven Forde -- The American prince? : George Washington's anti-Machiavellian moment / Matthew Spalding -- John Adams's Machiavellian moment / C. Bradley Thompson -- Thomas Jefferson's Machiavellian political science / Paul A. Rahe -- James Madison's princes and peoples / Gary Rosen -- Was Alexander Hamilton a Machiavellian statesman? / Karl-Friedrich Walling.

The significance of Machiavelli's political thinking for the development of modern republicanism is a matter of great controversy. A distinguished team of political theorists and historians reassess the evidence, examining the character of Machiavelli's own republicanism and charting his widespread influence, the founders of the American Republic among others.

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Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527 --Influence.


Republicanism--History.

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