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The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France : between the ancients and the moderns /

This text offers an account of the role played by 17th- and 18th-century English Republican ideas in 18th-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 18...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hammersley, Rachel, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2010.
Colección:Studies in early modern European history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.