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Introduction : what is republicanism? -- Republican ideas in the ancient world -- Renaissance republicanism -- Early modern republicanism -- English republicanism -- Post-revolutionary English republicanism -- Republicanism during the Enlightenment -- The American Revolution -- The French Revolution -- Republicanism in the nineteenth century -- Republicanism today.

This is the first biography of James Harrington in forty years. It addresses the complexities of Harrington's republicanism, examines his views on issues such as democracy and social mobility, and explores his contribution to a range of contemporary debates. Through Harrington's story, we see the development of seventeenth-century ideas and their relevance to the modern world.

Intro -- Contributors -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Rachel Hammersley -- 1From Native Rights to Natural Equality: The Agreement of the People (1647) Rachel Foxley -- 2James Harrington, The Commonwealth of Oceana and a Revolution in the Language of Politics Rachel -- 3Revolution Principles Mark Knights -- 4A 'révolution ménagée': Mably's Des droits et des devoirs du citoyen Johnson Kent Wright -- 5Rousseau and Revolutions Richard Whatmore -- 6Exclusion at the Founding: The Declaration of Independence Robert G. Parkinson -- 7Securing Liberty: The Federalist Papers T. G. Rodgers -- 8Revolution, Reform and the Political Thought of Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès Michael Sonenscher -- 9The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, August 1789: A Revolutionary Document Ly -- 10Paine's Rights of Man and the Religiosity of Rights Doctrines Gregory Claeys -- 11Virtue and Terror: Maximilien Robespierre on the Principles of the French Revolution Marisa Lint -- 12The Haitian Declaration of Independence: Recognition, Freedom and Anti-French Sentiment Julia Ga -- 13A Lesson in Revolution: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto Julian Wright -- 14From National Backwardness to Revolutionary Leadership: Alexander Herzen's Book On the Development -- 15George Plekhanov and the Marxist Turn in Russia Christopher Read -- 16Ordinary Miracles: Lenin's Call for Revolutionary Ambition Lars T. Lih -- 17Revolution and Evolution: Kropotkin's Anarchism George Crowder -- 18Revolutionary Cultivation: Liu Shaoqi's How to Be a Good Communist (1939) and the Rejection of Con -- 19Between Socialist Futures: Mao Zedong on the 'Ten Major Relationships' Daniel Leese -- 20Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth: Embodying Anti-Colonial Action Xavier Guégan.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Since at least the mid-seventeenth century, the concept of revolution has been an important tool both for those seeking to bring about political change and for those trying to understand it. And it is as relevant today as it has ever been. This volume re-evaluates our understanding of the history of revolutionary thought by examining a selection of key texts. These range from the 17th to the 20th century, and are carefully chosen to include both constitutional documents and theoretical works by figures such as James Harrington, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maximilian Robespierre, Peter Kropotkin and Deng Xiaoping Each chapter engages with a particular revolutionary moment via a specific text, usually an extract of around 300 words, and considers the significance of the text for the history of revolutionary thought. The structure of the book allows readers to make connections and comparisons across the different revolutionary texts and moments, thereby providing a broader, deeper and more nuanced understanding of revolutions. Stimulating, accessible and interdisciplinary, Revolutionary Moments will appeal to students and researchers in the history of political thought and intellectual history, and beyond.

"An in-depth study of the radical Cordeliers Club and its influence on political and constitutional thought of the time"--Provided by publisher

Traditional accounts of seventeenth-century English republicanism have usually presented it as inherently anti-monarchical and anti-democratic. This article seeks to challenge and complicate this picture by exploring James Harrington's views on royalism, republicanism and democracy. Building on recent assertions about Harrington's distinctiveness as a republican thinker, the article suggests that the focus on Harrington's republicanism has served to obscure the subtlety and complexity of his moral and political philosophy. Focusing on the year 1659, and the pamphlet war that Harrington and his supporters waged against their fellow republicans, it seeks to re-emphasise important but neglected elements of Harrington's thought. It suggests that the depth and extent of Harrington's sympathy with royalists and royalism has been underplayed, while too little attention has been paid to the fundamental differences between his ideas and those adopted by other republican thinkers at the time. In addition it brings to light, for the first time, Harrington's innovative endorsement of both the term and the concept of 'democracy' and draws attention to his intellectual and personal affinities with the Levellers. Finally it outlines some implications of these findings for understandings of English republicanism and the republican tradition more generally. [Copyright Elsevier Ltd.]

International audience ; It is often assumed that it was the American and French Revolutions of the late eighteenth century that revived the fortunes of democracy (which had long been viewed in negative terms) and reinvented it to fit the circumstances of the modern world. This article demonstrates that in both respects the revolutionaries of the late eighteenth century were able to draw on an earlier model. The role of the Levellers of the English Revolution in developing proto-democratic ideas has long been acknowledged, but it was one of their contemporaries, the republican James Harrington, who explicitly adopted a positive understanding of the term 'democracy' and thought seriously about what a large modern democracy would look like. Since Harrington's place in the history of democracy has been largely neglected, this article will analyse those ideas before going on to demonstrate the influence that his ideas exerted on French revolutionaries in the Cordeliers Club, who were interested in him precisely because of his ideas about democracy. ; Le plus souvent, il est accepté que ce sont les Etats-Unis et la France qui ont fait revivre la tradition démocratique (appréhendée longtemps en terme négatif) à la fin du XVIIIème siècle. Cet article voudrait montrer comment les deux pays ont pu s'appuyer sur un modèle plus ancien. Le rôle des « Levellers » dans la révoltuion anglaise a consisté à développer cette proto-démocratie, longtemps méconnue, mais ce fut Harrington, leur contemporain qui définit alors, de façon positive, le terme de démocratie ; Là encore la place d'Harington fut négligée mais les pages qui suivent ses idées et leur influence sur les révolutionnaires français, plus particulièrement au club des Cordeliers, attaché à sa pensée démocratique.