Legitimacy and Power Politics
Subtitle: The American and French Revolutions in International Political Culture (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: May 6, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780691074344
Subjects: Geography; International relations; c 1800 to c 1900; Political Science; History; Archaeology / Anthropology; Politics/International Relations; USA; Anthropology - Cultural; History & Theory - General; Political Science / History & Theory; Political Science and International Relations; Enlightenment; Legitimacy of governments; Sovereignty; United States
First sentence: This book examines a major transformation in both domestic and international politics: the shift from dynastically legitimated monarchical sovereignty to popularly legitimated national sovereignty.
Description: "This 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."--BOOK JACKET.