1st Edition
From Classical to Modern Republicanism Reflections on England, Scotland, America, and France
By Mark Hulliung
Copyright 2020
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
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In 1955 Louis Hartz published a volume titled The Liberal Tradition in America, in which he argued that liberalism was the one and only American tradition. Since then scholars of New Left and neoconservative persuasion have offered an alternative account based on the notion that the civic notions of antiquity continued to dominate political thought in modern times. Against this revisionist view... Read more
1. Introduction: The Use and Abuse of History
2. "Republicanism": Revisiting the Career of a Concept
3. Republicans Before the Republic: Helvétius, Holbach, and Saige
4. Republics Without Borders: Richard Price, Joseph Priestley, Catharine Macaulay, and Thomas Paine
5. What Is Living, What Is Dead in "Republicanism?"
Biography
Mark Hulliung is Richard Koret Professor of History at Brandeis University.
