Discourses of Decline

Preface

Notes on Editors

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction: Republican Decline in Context

 Joris Oddens, Mart Rutjes, and Arthur Weststeijn

2 Trends and Transitions in Dutch Commercial Republicanism, 1600–1800

 Ida Nijenhuis

3 Becoming Spinoza: On the Failure of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus

 Wiep van Bunge

4 Republicanism and Slavery in Dutch Intellectual Culture, 1600–1800

 Freya Sierhuis

5 The Problem of National Debt in Dutch Republican Thought: Joan Derk van der Capellen and Elie Luzac

 Lina Weber

6 Polite Batavians: The Uses of the Past in Late-Eighteenth-Century Dutch Spectators

 Eleá de la Porte

7 Vulnerable Virtue: The Enlightened Pessimism of Dutch Revolutionaries at the End of the Eighteenth Century

 Jan Rotmans

8 A Republican Patriot on His Own Pedestal: Joan Hendrik Swildens (1746–1809)

 Niek van Sas

9 The Demise of Dutch Republicanism in the Nineteenth Century

 Remieg Aerts

10 Braving the Batavians: Classical Models and Countering Rebellion in the Spanish Empire

 Lisa Kattenberg

11 Reshaping the Republican Ritual: The Entry of the Procurators of St Mark in Early Modern Venice

 Alessandro Metlica

12 Greek Political Models in the German Enlightenment Press

 Hans Erich Bödeker

13 The European Republic from the Enlightenment to the Counter-Revolution

 Matthijs Lok

14 Conservatism, Republicanism, and Romanticism: Thomas Mann’s “Conversion” to Democracy in 1922

 Wessel Krul

Index