Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage

by Edited by Martin van Gelderen , Quentin Skinner

• ISBN13: 9780521672344
• ISBN10: 0521672341
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-07-25
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

These volumes are the fruits of a major European Science Foundation project and offer the first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage. Whilst previous research has mainly focused on Atlantic traditions of republicanism, Professors Skinner and van Gelderen have assembled an internationally distinguished set of contributors whose studies highlight the richness and diversity of European traditions. Volume I focuses on the importance of anti-monarchism in Europe and analyses the relationship between citizenship and civic humanism, concluding with studies of the relationship between constitutionalism and republicanism in the period between 1500 and 1800. Volume II is devoted to the study of key republican values such as liberty, virtue, politeness and toleration. This volume also addresses the role of women in European republican traditions, and contains a number of in-depth studies of the relationship between republicanism and the rise of a commercial society in early modern Europe.

Table of Contents

Introduction Quentin Skinner

Part I. Republicanism and Political Values: 1. Classical liberty and the coming of the English Civil War Quentin Skinner

2. Empire and liberty: a Republican dilemma David Armitage

3. Republicanism and toleration Simone Zurbuchen

4. The mechanisation of virtue: Republican rituals in Italian political thought in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Vittorio Conti

5. From virtue to politeness Iain Hampsher-Monk

6. From citizenship to civility: the critique of Republican virtue Jean Fabien Spitz

Part II. The Place of Women in the Republic: 7. Rights or virtues: women and the Republic Christine Fauré

8. Women, Republicanism and the growth of commerce Catherine Larrè

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9. Feminist Republicanism and the political perception of gender Judith Vega

Part III. Republicanism and the Rise of Commerce: 10. Republicanism and commercial society in the Scottish Enlightenment: the case of Adam Ferguson Marco Geuna

11. Scots, Germans, republic and commerce Fania Oz-Salzberger

12. Neo-Roman Republicanism and commercial society Bela Kapossy

13. Republicanism and commercial society in eighteenth-century Italy Eluggero Pii

14. Republicanism, state finances and the emergence of commercial society in eighteenth-century France - or from Royal to Ancient Republicanism and back Michael Sonenscher

15. Commercial realities, Republican principles Donald Winch

Index.