The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France [[electronic resource] ] : between the ancients and the moderns / / Rachel Hammersley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820791003321
• Autore: Hammersley Rachel <1974->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Manchester, : Manchester University Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-84779-739-3; 1-78170-234-9; 1-84779-304-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Collana: Studies in Early Modern European History; Studies in early modern European history
• Disciplina: 320.44409033
• Soggetti: Republicanism - France - History - 18th century; Republicanism - Great Britain - History - 17th century; Republicanism - Great Britain - History - 18th century; France Politics and government 18th century; France Foreign relations Great Britain; Great Britain Foreign relations France
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-229) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Real Whigs and Huguenots. From English republicans to British commonwealthmen ; The Huguenot connection -- Bolingbroke and France. Viscount Bolingbroke : an atypical commonwealthman ; Bolingbroke's French associates ; A French commonwealthman : the abbé Mably -- Commonwealthmen, Wilkites and France. The commonwealth tradition and the Wilkite controversies ; The British origins of the chevalier d'Eon's patriotism ; The British origins of the baron d'Holbach's atheism ; The British origins of Jean-Paul Marat's revolutionary radicalism -- English republicans and the French Revolution. Parallel revolutions : seventeenth-century England and eighteenth-century France ; The comte de Mirabeau and the works of John Milton and Catharine Macaulay ; The Cordeliers Club and the democratisation of English republican ideas.
• Sommario/riassunto: *The English Republican Tradition and Eighteenth-Century France* offers the first full account of the role played by seventeenth and eighteenth-century English republican ideas in eighteenth-century France.Challenging some of the dominant accounts of the republican tradition, it revises conventional understandings of what republicanism meant in both Britain and France during the eighteenth-century, offering a distinctive trajectory as regards ancient and modern constructions and highlighting variety rather than homogeneity within the tradition. Hammersley thus offers a new and fascinating pers