The end of kings
Subtitle: a history of republics and republicans
By: William R. Everdell
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780226224824
Subjects: Histoire; Republics; République; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction: What a republic is and how it was mislaid in America; title: 2. Samuel and Solon: The origins of the republic in tribalism; title: 3. From Brutus to Brutus: The rise and fall of Rome; title: 4. William Tell: The failure of kings in Switzerland; title: 5. Niccolò Machiavelli: The Florentine commune; title: 6. John Calvin: A Republican church; title: 7. John Milton: A commonwealth of saints; title: 8. John Adams and Benjamin Franklin: A Republican Union; title: 9. Maximilien Robespierre: The democratic republic; title: 10. Thaddeus Stevens: The legacy of the America Whigs; title: 11. Léon Gambetta and the Troisième: The Parliamentary Republic; title: 12. Gustav Noske: The Reluctant Republic of Weimer; title: 13. Five Senators: The Republic versus its Presidents; title: 14. Conclusion: Squaring the circles of Polybios.