Adam Ferguson in the Scottish enlightenment : the Roman past and Europe's future /
McDaniel, Iain,1975-
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,
2013.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-270) and index.
Montesquieu and the unfree republic -- Military government and empire in the Scottish enlightenment -- Ferguson and the moral foundations of civil society -- Trajectories of the modern commercial state -- Britain's future in a Roman mirror -- Civil-military union and the modern state -- Revolution and modern republicanism.
Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816.
Republicanism
Enlightenment