{"product_id":"9781333324490","title":"Cosimo De' Medici (Classic Reprint)","description":"Excerpt from Cosimo De' Medici\u003cp\u003eFlorence, too, was a commercial state; the possession of land was merely an accident in the possession of power, - a part, but the least important part, of wealth; we find all the commercial problems of a later date already alive - the uneasy relations between capital and labour, the employment of foreign politics as a means to commercial extension, the manipulation of a state debt, with shares whose value fluctuated as the prosperity of the Government.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, too, are found in almost every individual that very modern craving to obtain a share, however small, in the direction of the national policy; here, as in modern politics, the difficulty of establishing an executive powerful enough and sufficiently many-sided to embrace and com with the complicated and manifold conditions of modern administration; here efforts like those of a modern foreign minister to make his policy consistent and effective, and yet agreeable to the public whim Government must be maintained either by brute force or by clearly-expressed public Opinion, never by the inert acquiescence of the governed in any rule that had an appearance of hereditary right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Publisher\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FB\u0026C Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47053885964528,"sku":"9781333324490","price":11.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781333324490_p0.jpg?v=1763708297","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781333324490","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}