Adam Ferguson in the Scottish enlightenment : the Roman past and Europe's future / Iain McDaniel.

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.

x, 276 pages ; 25 cm

Montesquieu and the unfree republic -- Military government and empire in the Scottish enlightenment -- Ferguson and the moral foundations of civil society -- Trajectories of the modern commercial state -- Britain's future in a Roman mirror -- Civil-military union and the modern state -- Revolution and modern republicanism.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-270) and index.