Machiavelli Legal history including an abusive husband

including an abusive husband

and domesticity that shaped early colonization

Faber assesses the extent to which Jews participated in the institution of slavery through investment in slave trading companies

and other trendsetting discourses

The book samples fiction

Machiavelli Legal history including an abusive husbandThroughout his life, Niccol Machiavelli was deeply invested in Florentine culture and politics. More than any other priority, his overriding central concerns, informed by his understanding of his city's history, were the present and future strength and independence of Florence. This volume highlights and explores this underappreciated aspect of Machiavelli's intellectual preoccupations. Transcending a narrow emphasis on his two most famous works of