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* Pocock, J. G. A.
" The Machiavellian Moment Revisited: a Study in History and Ideology.
: Journal of Modern History 1981 53 ( 1 ): 49-72.
ISSN 0022-2801 Fulltext: in Jstor.
Summary of Pocock's influential ideas that traces the Machiavellian belief in and emphasis upon Greco-Roman ideals of unspecialized civic virtue and liberty from 15th century Florence through 17th century England and Scotland to 18th century America.
Pocock argues that thinkers who shared these ideals tended to believe that the function of property was to maintain an individual's independence as a precondition of his virtue.
Therefore they were disposed to attack the new commercial and financial regime that was beginning to develop.
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