Machiavelli and the Modern State

This book offers a significant reinterpretation of the history of republican political thought and of Niccolò Machiavelli''s place within it. It locates Machiavelli''s political thought within enduring debates about the proper size of republics. From the sixteenth century onward, as states grew larger, it was believed only monarchies could govern large territories effectively. Republicanism was a ...