Machiavelli and Republicanism (Ideas in Context, Series Number 18) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521435897 ISBN 13: 9780521435895

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

This highly acclaimed volume brings together some of the world's foremost historians of ideas to consider Machiavelli's political thought in the larger context of the European republican tradition, and the image of Machiavelli held by other republicans. An international team of scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds (notably law, philosophy, history and the history of political thought) explore both the immediate Florentine context in which Machiavelli wrote, and the republican legacy to which he contributed.

About this title

Book Description:

An international team of scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds explores the immediate Florentine context in which Machiavelli wrote, as well as the European republican legacy to which he contributed.

About the Author:

Gisela Bock is Professor of Western European History at the Free University of Berlin. She has published numerous books and articles on the history of women, including studies on gender relations in the modern welfare states, female poverty, women under National Socialism, and the European debates on gender relations.

Allison Brown has been a freelance translator of scholarly books and essays, largely in the fields of history and the social and political sciences, especially women's and cultural studies, since 1988. She has studied linguistics and German studies, and has an M.A. in translation science.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0521435897
• ISBN 13: 9780521435895
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 332
• Editor: Bock Gisela, Skinner Quentin, Viroli Maurizio