Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contents of Volume I -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Republicanism and Political Values -- 1 Classical Liberty and the Coming of the English Civil War -- 2 Empire and Liberty: A Republican Dilemma -- 3 Republicanism and Toleration -- I. Introduction -- II. The Republican Ideal and the English Monarchy -- III. Public and Private Religion: The National Church and Dissent -- IV. Toleration and Free-thinking -- V. Toland the Heterodox -- VI. Truth and Imposture: The Philosopher and the Priests -- VII. Conclusion -- 4 The Mechanisation of Virtue: Republican Rituals in Italian Political Thought in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- 5 From Virtue to Politeness -- I -- II -- 6 From Civism to Civility: D'Holbach's Critique of Republican Virtue -- I. Ancients and Moderns -- II. Eulogy of Dependence -- III. The Redefinition of Virtue -- Part II The Place of Women in the Republic -- 7 Rights or Virtues: Women and the Republic -- I. The Invention of the Concept of 'Women's Rights' -- II. Virtuous Women -- III. The Sumptuary Laws -- IV. On the Equality of the Sexes -- 8 Women, Republicanism and the Growth of Commerce -- I. Montesquieu: The Condition of Women, Republic and Monarchy -- II. The Trade Model -- III. Rousseau's Drive to Rehabilitate the Republican Model -- IV. Economy and Demography -- V. Conclusion: What Convergence? -- 9 Feminist Republicanism and the Political Perception of Gender -- I. A feminist political passion and mulier politica -- II. Contingency: From Fickle Fortune to Reactivating Gender -- III. Democracy in the Bedroom, or: The Personal is Political -- Part III Republicanism and the Rise of Commerce -- 10 Republicanism and Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Case of Adam Ferguson -- 11 Scots, Germans, Republic and Commerce -- I. Introduction.

II. Scottish Republicanism and the Uses of Commerce -- III. German Republicanism in the Late Eighteenth Century -- IV.The German Reception of Ferguson: Republic Postponed -- 12 Neo-Roman Republicanism and Commercial Society: The Example of Eighteenth-century Berne -- I. The Swiss Republics and Machiavelli -- II. SPQB: The Republic of Berne as a New Rome -- III. The Paternalistic Régime of the Bernese Aristocracy -- IV. The Economic Society of Berne and the Critique of the Bernese Ancien Régime -- V. Neo-Roman Investments: Berne and the Financial Crisis of the Seven Years War -- VI. The Beginning of the End: The Bernese Aristocracy and the French Revolution -- 13 Republicanism and Commercial Society in Eighteenth-century Italy -- I. The republic of the literati -- II. Venice in the Looking Glass -- III. Vico's Heroic Republic -- IV. The Republic of Merchants? -- 14 Republicanism, State Finances and the Emergence of Commercial Society in Eighteenth-century France - or from Royal… -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- 15 Commercial Realities, Republican Principles -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Contributors -- Index of Names of Persons -- Index of Subjects.