A laboratory of liberty
Subtitle: the transformation of political culture in republican Switzerland, 1750-1848
By: by Marc H. Lerner
Series: Studies in Central European histories -- v. 54; Studies in Central European histories -- v. 54.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9789004205154
Subjects: Politics and government; Political culture; Revolutions; Social change; Self-determination, National; Republicanism; Social conditions; Liberty; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. The end of the Old Regime in Europe and in the Swiss Eidgenossenschaft; title: On the ideological origins of the revolution in Switzerland; title: Ambivalent revolutionaries : the Helvetic Republic in revolutionary Europe; title: pt. 2. Regeneration of a constructed past : continuities and discontinuities in the struggle between old and new visions of Switzerland and Europe; title: The right to self-rule : the debate over legitimacy and the Vaud-Bern relationship; title: Two visions of political society in inner Switzerland, 1829-33; title: Popular sovereignty in the Züriputsch; title: pt. 3. National accommodation; title: Radical conceptions of the Confederation : popular sovereignty and the 1845 revolution in Vaud; title: War, accommodation, and the making of the modern constitutional state.