Radical Elements and Attempted Revolutions in the Late-18th-Century Republics
Too often the assumption has been that revolutionary political innovation came solely from centres such as seventeenth-century London and eighteenth-century Paris, and that republican French troops imposed radical structures based on universal principles elsewhere in Europe during the later revoluti...
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| Published in | The Republican Alternative p. 301 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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Amsterdam University Press
27.06.2008
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| Summary: | Too often the assumption has been that revolutionary political innovation came solely from centres such as seventeenth-century London and eighteenth-century Paris, and that republican French troops imposed radical structures based on universal principles elsewhere in Europe during the later revolutionary period. However, the small republics of Europe, places like the Netherlands, the Swiss Confederation, Geneva and Hamburg, were also centres of political innovation. In fact, popular sovereignty was entrenched in these small states before the French Revolution spread its rhetoric of the Rights of Man across Europe. These eighteenth-century republics, often decentralised, were not solely passive recipients of French Revolutionary |
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| ISBN: | 9089640053 9789089640055 |