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The Machiavellian moment : Florentine political thought and the Atlantic Republican tradition
Record details
- OCLC: ocn956554916
- ISBN: 9780691100296
- ISBN: 0691100292
- ISBN: 9780691075600
- ISBN: 0691075603
- ISBN: 0691172234
- ISBN: 9780691172231
- ISBN: 1400883512
- ISBN: 9781400883516
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Physical Description:
1 online resource
remote - Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2016.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-568). |
| Contents: | Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Introduction to the Princeton Classics Edition; Introduction; PART ONE. Particularity and Time The Conceptual Background; I The Problem and Its Modes A) Experience, Usage and Prudence; II The Problem and Its Modes B) Providence, Fortune and Virtue; III The Problem and Its Modes C) The Vita Activa and the Vivere Civile; PART TWO. The Republic and its Fortune Florentine Political Thought from 1494 to 1530; IV From Bruni to Savonarola Fortune, Venice and Apocalypse; V The Medicean Restoration A) Guicciardini and the Lesser Ottimati, 1512-1516. VI The Medicean Restoration B) Machiavelli's II PrincipeVII Rome and Venice A) Machiavelli's Discorsi and Arte della Guerra; VIII Rome and Venice B) Guicciardini's Dialogo and the Problem of Optimate Prudence; IX Giannotti and Contarini Venice as Concept and as Myth; PART THREE. Value and History in the Prerevolutionary Atlantic; X The Problem of English Machiavellism Modes of Civic Consciousness before the Civil War; XI The Anglicization of the Republic A) Mixed Constitution, Saint and Citizen; XII The Anglicization of the Republic B) Court, Country and Standing Army. XIII Neo-Machiavellian Political Economy The Augustan Debate over Land, Trade and CreditXIV The Eighteenth-Century Debate Virtue, Passion and Commerce; XV The Americanization of Virtue Corruption, Constitution and Frontier; Afterword; Bibliography; Index. |
| Note: | In English. |
| Awards: | American Political Science Association Benjamin E. Lippincott Award, 1993. |
