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Did you know... that although Montesquieu had only intended to write a few pages about the decline of the Roman Empire, he eventually produced 277 pages in 23 chapters?

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Here are some scholarly sources, found in the reference section of:

"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.

Krause's list of relevant papers

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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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