The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France
Subtitle: between the ancients and the moderns
By: Rachel Hammersley
Series: Studies in early modern European history; Studies in early modern European history
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Manchester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780719079320
Subjects: Politics and government; Republicanism; Foreign relations; History
Description: 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 18th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-229) and index.
Table of contents: title: Real Whigs and Huguenots. From English republicans to British commonwealthmen ; The Huguenot connection; title: Bolingbroke and France. Viscount Bolingbroke : an atypical commonwealthman ; Bolingbroke's French associates ; A French commonwealthman : the abbé Mably; title: 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; title: 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.