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Author Lerner, Marc H.

Title A laboratory of liberty : the transformation of political culture in republican Switzerland, 1750-1848 / by Marc H. Lerner
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 371 pages) : maps
Series Studies in Central European histories, 1547-1217 ; v. 54
Studies in Central European histories ; v. 54.
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Political culture -- Switzerland -- History -- 18th century
Political culture -- Switzerland -- History -- 19th century
Liberty -- Political aspects -- Switzerland -- History
Republicanism -- Switzerland -- History
Self-determination, National -- Switzerland -- History
Revolutions -- Switzerland -- History
Social change -- Switzerland -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Liberty -- Political aspects
Political culture
Politics and government
Republicanism
Revolutions
Self-determination, National
Social change
Social conditions
SUBJECT Switzerland -- Politics and government -- 18th century
Switzerland -- Politics and government -- 19th century
Switzerland -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85131345
Subject Switzerland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011029857
ISBN 9789004214644
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1283310724
9781283310727
9786613310729
6613310727