Civil Society, Philanthropy, and the Fate of the Commons. by Sievers, Bruce R.

Table of Contents: “…Emergence of Civil Society in the Dutch Republic --…”
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Breakdown, breakup, breakthrough : Germany's difficult passage to modernity /

Table of Contents: “…Calvinism and Democracy: The Case of the Dutch Republic (1555-1787) /…”
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Ancient models in the early modern Republican imagination /

Table of Contents: “…Renaissance historicism and the model of Rome in Florentine historiography / Jacques Bos -- The Roman republic as a constitutional order in the Italian Renaissance / Benjamin Straumann -- Commonwealths for preservation and increase: ancient Rome in Venice and the Dutch republic / Arthur Weststeijn -- Early modern Greek histories and Republican political thought / William Stenhouse -- A classical confederacy: the example of the Achaean league in the seventeenth-century Dutch republic / Jaap Nieuwstraten -- From failed republic to polite polis: ancient Athens in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England / Christine Zabel -- Painting Plutarch: images of Sparta in the Dutch republic and Enlightenment France / Wessel Krul -- Against democracy: Dutch eighteenth-century critics of ancient and modern popular government / Wyger Velema -- The Hebrew republic in sixteenth-century political debate: the struggle for jurisdiction / Guido Bartolucci -- The Hebrew republic in Dutch political thought, c. 1650-1675 / René Koekkoek -- The Helvetians as ancestors and Brutus as a model: the classical past in the early modern Swiss confederation / Thomas Maissen -- Classical models in early modern Poland-Lithuania / Tomasz Gromelski -- America's antiquities: the ancient past in the creation of the American republic / Eran Shalev.…”
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Controlling the state : constitutionalism from ancient Athens to today / by Gordon, Scott, 1924-

Table of Contents: “…The Republic of Venice -- 6. The Dutch republic -- 7. The development of constitutional government and countervailance theory in seventeenth-century England -- 8. …”
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Civil society, philanthropy, and the fate of the commons / by Sievers, Bruce R.

Table of Contents: “…Cover Page -- Civil Society -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 The Concept of Civil Society -- 2 Institutional Structures -- 3 Normative Traditions -- 4 The Emergence of Civil Society in the Dutch Republic -- 5 The Enlightenment Legacy -- 6 Civil Society in America -- 7 Private and Public Goods in the Twenty-first Century -- 8 Philanthropy, Civil Society, and the Commons -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Citizens without nations : urban citizenship in Europe and the world, c.1000-1789 / by Prak, Maarten Roy, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : worlds of citizenship -- Formal citizenship -- Urban governance : citizens and their authorities -- Economic citizenship through the guilds -- Welfare and the civic community -- Citizens, soldiers, and civic militias -- Italian city-states and their citizens -- The Dutch Republic : the federalisation of citizenship -- Citizenship in England : from the Reformation to the Glorious Revolution -- Cities and states in continental Europe -- Original citizenship in China and the Middle East -- Recreating European citizenship in the Americas -- Conclusions : citizenship before and beyond the French Revolution.…”
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The military revolution and political change origins of democracy and autocracy in early modern Europe / by Downing, Brian M., 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Medieval Origins of Constitutional Government -- Chapter Three: The Military Revolution -- Chapter Four: Brandenburg-Prussia -- Chapter Five: France -- Chapter Six: Poland -- Chapter Seven: England -- Chapter Eight: Sweden -- Chapter Nine: The Dutch Republic -- Chapter Ten: Conclusions -- Selected Bibliography -- Social Science -- Medieval European History -- Modern European History -- Military History -- Austria -- China -- England -- France…”
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Resistance, representation, and community /

Table of Contents: “…. -- The relationship between sovereign and city in the process of state development : the example of Koblenz / Gerhard Dilcher -- The impact of cities on state formation : three contrasting territories in the Low Countries, 1300-1500 / Wim Blockmans -- Popular participation in politics in the Dutch Republic / Henk van Nierop -- States in Tuscany and Veneto, 1200-1500 / Ann Katherine Isaacs -- Integration and resistance in Spanish Italy, 1500-1800 / Aurelio Musi.…”

Constituting federal sovereignty : the European Union in comparative context / by Goldstein, Leslie Friedman, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- The Member-State Resistance Paradox: American Union (1790-1860) versus European Community (1958-1994) -- Chapter 2 -- State Resistance in the United States and the European Community: Unraveling the Puzzle -- Chapter 3 -- The Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic and the European Union -- Chapter 4 -- The First Half-Century of the Modern Swiss Federation -- Chapter 5 -- Conclusions: State Behavior in Suprastate Unions -- Appendix A -- State Resistance to Federal Authority in the United States.…”
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Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age the Political Thought of Johan & Pieter De La Court. by Weststeijn, Arthur

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The individual in political theory and practice /

Table of Contents: “…Guggisberg -- Liberty, civic rights, and duties in sixteenth-century Europe and the rise of the Dutch Republic / Martin van Gelderen -- Guilt and individual consciousness ; the individual, the Church and the state in the modern era, sixteenth-seventeenth centuries / Marie-Sylvie Dupont-Bouchat -- A case of modern individualism : politics and the uneasiness of intellectuals in the Baroque Age / Vittor Ivo Comparato -- 'Liberty is an inestimable thing' : some unexpected 'laboratories' of human rights in France and Germany / Wolfgang Schmale -- Rulers and subjects : the absolutist making of the individual / Wolfgang Weber -- What is 'man' in seventeenth-century philosophy? …”

The encyclopedia of libertarianism /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Constitutionalism -- Contractarianism/Social Contract -- Corruption -- Cosmopolitanism -- Culture -- Decentralism -- Declaration of Independence -- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen -- Delegation -- Democracy -- Development, Economic -- Dicey, Albert Venn -- Diderot, Denis -- Division of Labor -- Douglass, Frederick -- Drug Prohibition -- Dunoyer, Charles -- Dutch Republic -- Economics, Austrian School of -- Economics, Chicago School of -- Economics, Experimental -- Economics, Keynesian -- Education -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Eminent Domain/Takings -- English Civil Wars -- Enlightenment -- Entrepreneurship -- Environment -- Epicureanism -- Epstein, Richard A. -- Equality -- Euthanasia -- Evolutionary Psychology -- Existentialism -- Externalities -- Family -- Fascism -- Federalism -- Federalists Versus Anti-Federalists -- Feminism and Women's Rights -- Ferguson, Adam -- Fisher, Antony -- Foreign Policy -- Foucault, Michel -- Freedom -- Freedom of Speech -- Freedom of Thought -- Free-Market Economy -- Free Trade -- French Revolution -- Friedman, David -- Friedman, Milton -- Fusionism -- Gambling -- Garrison, William Lloyd -- Genetics -- Gladstone, William Ewart -- Globalization -- Glorious Revolution -- Godwin, William -- Goldwater, Barry -- Government -- Great Depression -- Harper, Floyd Arthur "Baldy" -- Hayek, Friedrich A. -- Hazlitt, Henry -- Health Care -- Heinlein, Robert -- Herbert, Auberon -- Hess, Karl -- Hobbes, Thomas -- Hodgskin, Thomas -- Hospers, John -- Humanism -- Humboldt, Wilhelm von -- Hume, David -- Hutcheson, Francis -- Illicit Drugs -- Immigration -- Imperialism -- Individualism, Methodological -- Individualism, Political and Ethical -- Individualist Anarchism -- Individual Rights -- Industrial Revolution -- Intellectual Property -- Internet -- Interventionism -- Islam -- Italian Fiscal Theorists -- Jacobs, Jane -- Jefferson, Thomas -- Jouvenel, Bertrand de -- Judiciary -- Kant, Immanuel -- Kirzner, Israel M. -- Kleptocracy -- Knight, Frank H. -- La Boétie, Étienne de -- Labor Unions -- Laissez-Faire Policy -- Lane, Rose Wilder -- Lao Tzu -- Las Casas, Bartolomé de -- Law and Economics -- Law Merchant -- LeFevre, Robert -- Left Libertarianism -- Leggett, William -- Levellers -- Liability -- Liberal Critique of Libertarianism -- Liberalism, Classical -- Liberalism, German -- Liberty, Presumption of -- Liberty in the Ancient World -- Limited Government -- Locke, John -- Macaulay, Thomas Babington -- MacBride, Roger Lea -- Madison, James -- Magna Carta -- Maine, Henry Sumner -- Mandeville, Bernard -- Market Failure -- Marriage -- Marxism -- Mason, George -- Material Progress -- Mencken, H.L. -- Menger, Carl -- Mercantilism -- Meyer, Frank S. -- Military-Industrial Complex -- Mill, John Stuart -- Milton, John -- Minimal State -- Mises, Ludwig von -- Molinari, Gustave de -- Money and Banking -- Montaigne, Michel de -- Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat de -- Mont Pelerin Society -- Murray, Charles -- Nathan, Tonie -- Nationalism -- Natural Harmony of Interests -- Natural Law -- New Deal -- Nietzsche, Friedrich -- Nock, Albert Jay -- Nonaggression Axiom -- Nozick, Robert -- Objectivism -- Oppenheimer, Franz -- Ortega y Gasset, José -- Orwell, George -- Ostrom, Vincent and Elinor -- Paine, Thomas -- Paternalism -- Paterson, Isabel -- Paul, Ron -- Peace and Pacifism -- Philosophic Radicals -- Physiocracy -- Political Parties -- Popper, Karl -- Pornography -- Positive Liberty -- Posner, Richard A. -- Pound, Roscoe -- Praxeology -- Price, Richard -- Price Controls -- Privacy -- Private Property -- Privatization -- Progress -- Progressive Era -- Prohibition of Alcohol -- Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph -- Psychiatry -- Public Choice Economics -- Puritanism -- Pursuit of Happiness -- Racism -- Rand, Ayn -- Rawls, John -- Read, Leonard E. -- Regulation -- Religion and Liberty -- Rent Seeking -- Republicanism, Classical -- Responsibility -- Restitution for Crime -- Retribution for Crime -- Revolution, Right of -- Ricardo, David -- Rights, Natural -- Rights, Theories of -- Right to Bear Arms -- Röpke, Wilhelm -- Rothbard, Murray -- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques -- Rule of Law -- Say, Jean-Baptiste -- Scholastics/School of Salamanca -- Schumpeter, Joseph -- Secessionism -- Self-Interest -- Senior, Nassau William -- Separation of Church and State -- Sexuality -- Shaftesbury, Third Earl of -- Sidney, Algernon -- Simon, Julian -- Slavery, World -- Slavery in America -- Smith, Adam -- Social Darwinism -- Socialism -- Socialist Calculation Debate -- Social Security -- Sociology and Libertarianism -- Sowell, Thomas -- Spencer, Herbert -- Spontaneous Order -- Spooner, Lysander -- State -- Stigler, George J. -- Stirner, Max -- Stoicism -- Subsidiarity -- Sumner, William Graham -- Szasz, Thomas -- Taft, Robert A. -- Taxation -- Tax Competition -- Term Limits -- Thoreau, Henry David -- Tocqueville, Alexis de -- Tracy, Destutt de -- Transportation -- Tucker, Benjamin R. -- Tullock, Gordon -- Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques -- Urban Planning -- Utilitarianism -- Virtue -- Voltaire -- Voluntarism -- Voluntary Contract Enforcement -- War -- War on Terror -- War Powers -- Washington, George -- Wealth and Poverty -- Welfare State -- Whiggism -- Wicksell, Knut -- Wilberforce, William -- Wollstonecraft, Mary.…”
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