http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/1994/10/03#republics Constitutions and their variety. Decay and/or transformation. Indigenous republics outside Europe? Outside the Mediterreanean? <ul>Recommended (grossly inadequate and incomplete, etc., etc.): <li>Robert E. Goodin, "Folie R&eacute;publicaine", <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.polisci.6.121901.085542"><cite>Annual Review of Political Science</cite> <strong>6</strong> (2003): 55--76</a> </ul> <ul>To read <li>William Everdell, <cite>An End to Kings</cite> <li>J. G. A. Pocock, <cite>The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition</cite> <li>Daniel Waley, <cite>The Italian City-Republics</cite> </ul>