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A laboratory of liberty : the transformation of political culture in republican Switzerland, 1750-1848 / by Marc H. Lerner.

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

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Description
xvi, 371 p. : maps; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Studies in Central European histories, 1547-1217 ; v. 54
Uniform Title
Studies in Central European histories ; v. 54.
Subject
  • Political culture > Switzerland > History > 18th century
  • Political culture > Switzerland > History > 19th century
  • Liberty > History. > Switzerland
  • 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
  • Switzerland > Politics and government > 18th century
  • Switzerland > Politics and government > 19th century
  • Switzerland > Social conditions
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 9789004205154 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9004205152 (hbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2011029857
OCLC
741549326
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library