Reflects on histories of freedom and republicanism through a major new reappraisal of Quentin Skinner's Liberty before Liberalism.

Provides one of the most substantial statements about the importance, relevance, and potential excitement of this form of historical enquiry.

This extended essay by one of the world's leading historians seeks, in its first part, to excavate and to vindicate, the neo-Roman theory of free citizens and f

What did democracy mean before liberalism? What are the consequences for our lives today? These questions are examined by this book.

In an ere as morally confused as ours, Stoner argues, we at least ought to know what we've abandoned or suppressed in the name of judicial activism and the mode