A laboratory of liberty : the transformation of political culture in republican Switzerland, 1750-1848
- Author/Creator:
- Lerner, Marc H.
- Publication/Creation:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- A laboratory of liberty : the transformation of political culture in republican Switzerland, 1750-1848 / by Marc H. Lerner
- Series Titles:
- Studies in Central European histories, v. 54
Studies in Central European histories ; v. 54.
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Political culture--Switzerland--History--18th century
Political culture--Switzerland--History--19th century
Liberty--Political aspects--Switzerland--History
Republicanism--Switzerland--History
Self-determination, National--Switzerland--History
Revolutions--Switzerland--History
Social change--Switzerland--History
Switzerland--Politics and government--18th century
Switzerland--Politics and government--19th century
Switzerland--Social conditions
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. The end of the Old Regime in Europe and in the Swiss Eidgenossenschaft -- On the ideological origins of the revolution in Switzerland -- Ambivalent revolutionaries : the Helvetic Republic in revolutionary Europe -- pt. 2. Regeneration of a constructed past : continuities and discontinuities in the struggle between old and new visions of Switzerland and Europe -- The right to self-rule : the debate over legitimacy and the Vaud-Bern relationship -- Two visions of political society in inner Switzerland, 1829-33 -- Popular sovereignty in the Züriputsch -- pt. 3. National accommodation -- Radical conceptions of the Confederation : popular sovereignty and the 1845 revolution in Vaud -- War, accommodation, and the making of the modern constitutional state.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- xvi, 371 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 990030858510302486
- ISBN:
- 9004205152 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9789004205154 (hbk. : alk. paper) - OCLC Number:
- 741549326
- Barcode:
- 010002575899
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