Talk:Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline

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 * "The Uncertain Inevitability of Decline in Montesquieu"
 * Author: Sharon R. Krause
 * Source: Political Theory, Vol. 30, No. 5 (Oct., 2002), pp. 702-727
 * Published by: Sage Publications, Inc.
 * Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3072499

The Krause paper can be found in JSTOR.

For analysis of Montesquieu's Considerations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur decadence, see David Lowenthal's introduction in his translation of the book (New York: Free Press, 1965); Richard Myers, "Christianity and Politics in Montesquieu's Greatness and Decline of the Romans," Interpretation 17 (winter 1989-90): 223-38; Roger B. Oake, "Montesquieu's Analysis of Roman History," Journal of the History of Ideas 16 (1955): 44-59. For treatment of Montesquieu's views on despotism, see Paul Verniere, "Montesquieu et le monde musulman, d'apres L'esprit des lois," in Actes du congres, 175-90; Robert Shackleton, "Les mots 'despote' et 'despotisme,' " in Essays on Montesquieu and on the Enlightenment, ed. David Gilson and Martin Smith (Oxford, UK: Voltaire Foundation, 1988); Francoise Weil, "Montesquieu et le despotisme," in Actes du congres; Roger Boesche, "Fearing Monarchs and Merchants: Montesquieu's Two Theories of Despotism," Western Political Science Quarterly 43 (December 1990): 741-62; Robert Koebner, "Despot and Despotism: Vicissitudes of a Political Term," in Journal of the Warburg and Courtland Institutes, vol. 14, no. 1/2 (London: Warburg Institute, 1951); Sharon Krause, "Despotism in The Spirit of Laws" in Montesquieu 's Science of Politics: Essays on The Spirit of Laws, ed. David Carrithers, Michael Mosher, and Paul Rahe (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), 231-72; Melvin Richter, "Montesquieu's Comparative Analysis of Europe and Asia: Intended and Unintended Consequences" in L'Europe de Montesquieu (Napoli, Italy: Liguori Editore, 1995); Elie Carcassone, "La Chine dans L'esprit des lois" in Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France (Paris: Librairie Armand Colin, 1924), 198- 205; David Young, "Montesquieu's View of Despotism and His Use of Travel Literature," Review of Politics 40 (1978): 392-405; Rahe, "Forms of Government,"' 90-97.

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