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
Summary
Based on a tradition of political innovation, Swiss citizens recalibrated their understanding of liberty and republicanism through public political debates, during the revolutionary transformation to a rights-based society. The resulting hybrid political culture enhances our understanding of the international Age of Revolution