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Machiavellian Moment Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition

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ISBN-10: 0691114722

ISBN-13: 9780691114729

Edition: 2nd 1975 (Revised)

Authors: John Greville Agard Pocock

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The first half of this book is a treatment of Florentine thought in the era of Machiavelli. In the second half, the author pursues the history of the Machiavelliam movement into English and American thought of the 17th and 18th centuries.
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Book details

List price: $47.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1975
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 2/16/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 640
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.17" long x 1.37" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Introduction
Particularity and Time: The Conceptual Background
The Problem and Its Modes: A) Experience, Usage and Prudence
The Problem and Its Modes: B) Providence, Fortune and Virtue
The Problem and Its Modes: C) The Vita Activa and the Vivere Civile
The Republic and its Fortune: Florentine Political Thought from 1494 to 1530
From Bruni to Savonarola: Fortune, Venice and Apocalypse
The Medicean Restoration: A) Guicciardini and the Lesser Ottimati, 1512-1516
The Medicean Restoration: B) Machiavelli's Il Principle
Rome and Venice: A) Machiavelli's Discorsi and Arte della Guerra
Rome and Venice: B) Guicciardini's Dialogo and the Problem of Optimate Prudence
Giannotti and Contarini: Venice as Concept and as Myth
Value and History in the Prerevolutionary Atlantic
The Problem of English Machiavellism: Modes of Civic Consciousness before the Civil War
The Anglicization of the Republic: A) Mixed Constitution, Saint and Citizen
The Anglicization of the Republic: B) Court, Country and Standing Army
Neo-Machiavellian Political Economy: The Augustan Debate over Land, Trade and Credit
The Eighteenth-Century Debate: Virtue, Passion and Commerce
The Americanization of Virtue: Corruption, Constitution and Frontier
Afterword
Bibliography
Index