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Selected Papers on Renaissance Philosophy and on Thomas Hobbes (review)

known writings such as De inventione and Pro Sestio. Sullivan’s expectation that the English texts before her will conform to Hobbesian/liberal or Machiavelli/modern republican theories colors her vision of their actual words. As a result, a forced quality occasionally creeps into her interpretations. None of this ultimately detracts from the stimulation that Sullivan’s book is sure to induce in the reader. She presents a convincing case that the story of English political thought from ca. 1650 into the early eighteenth century requires a more complex and multifaceted narration than political theorists usually allow. She also provides a useful and powerful corrective to the virtual stranglehold that Pocock has exercised over this field of study. Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the Formation of a Liberal Republicanism in England deserves to find a wide audience among scholars of early modern history as well as among students of political thought. CARY J. NEDERMAN Texas A&M University, College Station