Download or read book The Invention of the Modern Republic written by Biancamaria Fontana and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-26 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are republics nowadays the most common form of political organization, and the one most readily associated with modern democracy? In The Invention of the Modern Republic, a team of highly distinguished historians of ideas answers this question, and examines the origins of republican governments in America and Europe. Given the renewed interest at present in the functioning and evolution of democratic institutions--especially in their relation with market economies--the issues discussed here have a powerful contemporary resonance.