"The Companion to Montesquieu provides a first port-of-call for readers new to the study of Montesquieu, even as it makes major contributions to the specialist literature. The volume will attract scholars of multiple disciplines and readers interested in concepts like liberty, cosmopolitanism, sovereignty, and slavery treated in the thematic chapters"--

1. Montesquieu: life and letters by Paul A. Rahe; 2. Persian letters by Catherine Volpilhac-Auger; 3. Considerations on the Romans by Thomas L. Pangle; 4. On the spirit of the laws by Keegan Callanan; 5. Montesquieu and the classical world by Catherine Larrère; 6. Montesquieu's guiding principles and foundations by Cecil Courtney; 7. Virtue in Montesqueiu by David W. Carrithers; 8. Internationalism, cosmopolitanism, and empires by Michael Mosher; 9. Liberty in Montesquieu by Céline Spector; 10. Political sovereignty in Montesquieu by Sharon R. Krause; 11. Montesquieu on slavery by Vickie B. Sullivan; 12. Montesquieu on the liberty of women by Diana J. Schaub; 13. Political economy by Paul Cheney; 14. Religion and politics by Annelien de Dijn; 15. Constitutional history by Jacob T. Levy; 16. Montesquieu and the enlightenment by Jonathan Israel; 17. Montesquieu's liberal legacies by Rebecca E. Kingston; Bibliography.