Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on conventions
- Introduction
- 1 Greek nonsense in More's Utopia
- 2 The Roman agrarian laws and Machiavelli's modi privati
- 3 James Harrington and the “balance of justice”
- 4 “Prolem cum matre creatam”: the background to Montesquieu
- 5 Montesquieu's Greek republics
- 6 The Greek tradition and the American Founding
- Coda: Tocqueville and the Greeks
- Bibliography
- Index
- IDEAS IN CONTEXT
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on conventions
- Introduction
- 1 Greek nonsense in More's Utopia
- 2 The Roman agrarian laws and Machiavelli's modi privati
- 3 James Harrington and the “balance of justice”
- 4 “Prolem cum matre creatam”: the background to Montesquieu
- 5 Montesquieu's Greek republics
- 6 The Greek tradition and the American Founding
- Coda: Tocqueville and the Greeks
- Bibliography
- Index
- IDEAS IN CONTEXT
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- The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought , pp. i - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004