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Autore: | Hammersley Rachel <1974-> |
Titolo: | The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France [[electronic resource] ] : between the ancients and the moderns / / Rachel Hammersley |
Pubblicazione: | Manchester, : Manchester University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
Disciplina: | 320.44409033 |
Soggetto topico: | Republicanism - France - History - 18th century |
Republicanism - Great Britain - History - 17th century | |
Republicanism - Great Britain - History - 18th century | |
Soggetto geografico: | France Politics and government 18th century |
France Foreign relations Great Britain | |
Great Britain Foreign relations France | |
Soggetto non controllato: | Comte de Mirabeau |
English Republican ideas | |
French Revolution | |
John Toland | |
John Wilkes | |
Republican tradition | |
Republicanism | |
Viscount Bolingbroke | |
eighteenth-century France | |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France |
ISBN: | 1-84779-739-3 |
1-78170-234-9 | |
1-84779-304-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910791734803321 |
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