LEADER 04601nam 2200793Ia 450 001 9910345149603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-08769-X 010 $a9786612087691 010 $a1-4008-2541-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400825417 035 $a(CKB)1000000000756240 035 $a(EBL)445459 035 $a(OCoLC)355637067 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000191168 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11172057 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000191168 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10183391 035 $a(PQKB)10877899 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000458919 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11308593 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000458919 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10439383 035 $a(PQKB)11559098 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36215 035 $a(DE-B1597)446316 035 $a(OCoLC)979910657 035 $a(OCoLC)984657028 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400825417 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445459 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284215 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208769 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445459 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000756240 100 $a20011016d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLegitimacy and power politics $ethe American and French Revolutions in international political culture /$fMlada Bukovansky 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, NJ $cPrinceton University Press$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 225 1 $aPrinceton studies in international history and politics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-14670-5 311 $a0-691-07434-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 235-246) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tChapter One. Introduction: The Transformation of Legitimacy -- $tChapter Two. International Political Culture and Systemic Change -- $tChapter Three. Old Regime Political Culture -- $tChapter Four. The American Revolution -- $tChapter Five. The French Revolution -- $tChapter Six. Conclusion: Fractured Hegemony and the Seeds of Change -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThis book examines the causes and consequences of a major transformation in both domestic and international politics: the shift from dynastically legitimated monarchical sovereignty to popularly legitimated national sovereignty. It analyzes the impact of Enlightenment discourse on politics in eighteenth-century Europe and the United States, showing how that discourse facilitated new authority struggles in Old Regime Europe, shaped the American and French Revolutions, and influenced the relationships between the revolutionary regimes and the international system. The interaction between traditional and democratic ideas of legitimacy transformed the international system by the early nineteenth century, when people began to take for granted the desirability of equality, individual rights, and restraint of power. Using an interpretive, historically sensitive approach to international relations, the author considers the complex interplay between elite discourses about political legitimacy and strategic power struggles within and among states. She shows how culture, power, and interests interacted to produce a crucial yet poorly understood case of international change. The book not only shows the limits of liberal and realist theories of international relations, but also demonstrates how aspects of these theories can be integrated with insights derived from a constructivist perspective that takes culture and legitimacy seriously. The author finds that cultural contests over the terms of political legitimacy constitute one of the central mechanisms by which the character of sovereignty is transformed in the international system--a conclusion as true today as it was in the eighteenth century. 410 0$aPrinceton studies in international history and politics. 606 $aSovereignty 606 $aLegitimacy of governments 606 $aEnlightenment 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783 607 $aFrance$xHistory$yRevolution, 1789-1799 615 0$aSovereignty. 615 0$aLegitimacy of governments. 615 0$aEnlightenment. 676 $a306.2/0944/09033 700 $aBukovansky$b Mlada$f1962-$0853604 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910345149603321 996 $aLegitimacy and power politics$92461286 997 $aUNINA