The Invention of the modern republic
List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: the invention of the modern republic Biancamaria Fontana 1. Ancient and modern republicanism: 'mixed constitution' and 'ephors' Wilfried Nippel 2. Checks, balances and boundaries: the separation of powers in the constitutional debate of 1787 Bernard Manin 3. From Utopia to repulicanism: the case of Diderot Gerolamo Imbruglia 4. Cordeliers and Girondins: the prehistory of the republic? Patrice Gueniffey 5. The constitutional republicanism of Emmanuel Sieyes Pasquale Pasquino 6. The Thermidorian republic and its principles Biancamaria Fontana 7. Francesco Mario Pagano's 'Republic of Virtue': Naples 1799 Anthony Pagden 8. Kant, the French revolution and the definition of the republic Gareth Stedman Jones 9. French historians and the reconstruction of the republican tradition, 1800-1848 Francois Furet 10. The republic of universal suffrage Pierre Rosanvallon 11. The identity of the bourgeois liberal republic John Dunn Bibliography Index.