Introduction: Through the Shadows of the State The Fiction of the State as the Good, Natural and the Beautiful Remedies: The Neglected Heritage of Republicanism A Long-lived Republic: The Holy Roman Empire 1648-1763 A Solitary Republic: The United States of America 1776-1865 A S…
The geography of contemporary U.S. political economy has roots that run deep into our past. Earle traces their growth to the seventeenth-century origins of liberalism, republicanism, and financial crises.
"The geography of contemporary U.S. political economy - the relocation of firms toward the Sunbelt and abroad; the decline of manufacturing in the Rust Belt; the rise of footloose producer services; NAFTA-inspired trade flows - has roots that run deep into our past. This innovat…
In recent years, periodic discontent with the monarchy has become an aspect of political life in both Britain and the Commonwealth. While a number of important books have attempted to reappraise the British royal family, the study of anti-monarchism has by contrast been neglecte…
"In a tour de force of comparative intellectual history, Mark Hulliung sharply challenges conventional wisdom about the political nature of the "sister republics," America and France." "Hulliung argues that the standard American account of a continuous Jacobin republican tradit…
"In a tour de force of comparative intellectual history, Mark Hulliung sharply challenges conventional wisdom about the political nature of the "sister republics," America and France." "Hulliung argues that the standard American account of a continuous Jacobin republican tradit…
France in the mid-nineteenth century was shaken by a surge of civic activism, the "resurrection of civil society." But unlike similar developments throughout Europe, this civic mobilization culminated in the establishment of democratic institutions. How, Philip Nord asks, did Fr…
France in the mid-nineteenth century was shaken by a surge of civic activism, the "resurrection of civil society." But unlike similar developments throughout Europe, this civic mobilization culminated in the establishment of democratic institutions. How, Philip Nord asks, did Fr…
Tombs looks at France in the years when the disparate elements that made up the fragmented kingdom of the ancien regime were forged into the modern nation, subjecting every aspect of the period to close scrutiny.
"In 1989, the Cold War abruptly ended and it seemed as if the world was at last safe for democracy. But a spirit of uneasiness, discontent, and world-weariness soon arose and has persisted in Europe, in America, and elsewhere for two decades. To discern the meaning of this malai…