Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction: Rome in the Eighteenth Century 1
6. 1. Machiavelli on Imperial Republics 18
7. 2. Republicanism and the English Civil War 27
8. 3. Catonic Virtue, Sweet Commerce, and Imperial Rivalry 49
9. 4. From Colony to Nation to Empire 71
10. 5. From Caesar to Brutus to Augustus 98
11. 6. Le Royaume and La Patrie: Rome in Eighteenth-Century France 116
12. 7. The Role of Brutus in the French Revolution 140
13. 8. Imperial Pride and Anxiety: Gibbon’s Roman Empire and Ferguson’s Roman Republic 167
14. Conclusion 178
15. Index 183