J.P.Sommerville

Republicanism

Suggested reading

Armitage, David, et al., eds., Milton and Republicanism, 1995.
[Good collection of essays.]

Fink, Zera S., The Classical Republicans. An Essay in the Recovery of a Pattern of Thought in Seventeenth Century England, Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1945.
[Influential but dated.]

Haakonssen, Knud,"Republicanism," in Robert E. Goodin and Philip Pettit, eds., A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, Oxford, Basil Blackwell 1993, 568-74
[brief, thoughtful essay.]

Haitsma Mulier, Eco O. G. (1980), The myth of Venice and Dutch republican thought in the seventeenth century, translated by G. T. Moran, Assen 1980.

Haitsma Mulier, Eco O. G. 'The language of seventeenth-century republicanism in the United Provinces: Dutch or European?', in Anthony Pagden, ed., The languages of political theory in early-modern Europe, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987, 179-95.

Houston, Alan Craig, Algernon Sidney and the republican heritage in England and America, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1991.
[Good book on an important figure.]

Kelsey, Sean,  Inventing a republic:  The Political culture of the English Commonwealth 1649-53, Manchester, 1997.

Norbrook, David, Writing the English Republic, Cambridge 1999.
[On English mid-seventeenth century republicanism, by a republican.]

Pettit, Philip, Republicanism:  A Theory of freedom and government, Oxford 1997.

Peltonen, Markku, Classical humanism and Republicanism in English Political Thought 1570-1640, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
[Well-researched and thoughtful.]

Pocock, J.G.A., The Machiavellian Moment, 1976.
[Large, difficult, and highly influential.]

Rahe, Paul, Republics Ancient and Modern, 1992.
[Very wide-ranging; only a relatively small proportion of this massive work is on our period.]

Scott, Jonathan Commonwealth principles:  Republican writing of the English revolution, Cambridge University Press, 2004 [a fine account of the English republicans of the mid-seventeenth century.] [see also Scott's two fine volumes on Algernon Sidney.]

Sellers, M.N.S., The Sacred fire of liberty:  Republicanism, liberalism and the law, New York 1998.

Skinner, Quentin, Liberty before Liberalism, Cambridge 1998.
[Short and fairly easy. Not explicitly about republicans so much as neo-Romans; how different are they?]

Van Gelderen, Martin, and Skinner, Quentin, eds., Republicanism. A Shared European Heritage, 2 vols., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002
[highly important and useful collection.]

Wootton, David, ed., Republicanism, Liberty, and Commercial Society 1649-1776, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1994.
[Important collection of essays.]