Abbreviations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Come the Revolution 1
4. Part I Fortune’s Revolutions
5. Chapter one. Revolution in Ancient Greek Thought 29
6. Chapter two. Rome, Polybius, and the Revolution of Governments 46
7. Chapter three. How Translations of Polybius Transformed Political Thought 62
8. Chapter four. The Misfortunes of History 76
9. Part II Constitutions and Revolutions in the British World, 1642–1787
10. Introduction 85
11. Chapter five. An Eccentric Constitution (1642–60) 89
12. Chapter six. Revolution Principles (1688–1760) 105
13. Chapter seven. The Last of the Polybians (1764–87) 125
14. Part III Modern Times
15. Introduction 149
16. Chapter eight. The Progress of History 153
17. Chapter nine. Enlightenment Revolutions 165
18. Chapter ten. The Dual Power in the French Revolution 173
19. Part IV The Progress of Revolution
20. Chapter eleven. Liberal Revolution and Its Discontents 205
21. Chapter twelve. Revolutionary Futures: The Politics of Imagination 230
22. Chapter thirteen. Revolution in Permanence 246
23. Chapter fourteen. Red Leviathan: authority and violence 271
24. Conclusion The Coming Revolution? 285
25. Acknowledgments 297
26. Abbreviations 301
27. Notes 305
28. Bibliography 367
29. Index 409