The English Republican tradition and eighteenth-century France Between the ancients and the moderns.
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, (c)2010.
- 1 online resource (252 pages)
- Studies in Early Modern European History .
Includes bibliographies and index.
9780719079320; 9780719079320; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I Real Whigs and Huguenots; 1 From English republicans to British commonwealth men; 2 The Huguenot connection; Part II Bolingbroke and France; 3 Viscount Bolingbroke: an atypical commonwealth man; 4 Bolingbroke's French associates; 5 A French commonwealthman: the abbé Mably; Part III Commonwealthmen, Wilkites and France; 6 The commonwealth tradition and the Wilkite controversies; 7 The British origins of the chevalier d'Eon's patriotism; 8 The British origins of the baron d'Holbach's atheism. 9 The British origins of Jean-Paul Marat's revolutionary radicalismPart IV English Republicans and the French Revolution; 10 Parallel revolutions: seventeenth-century England and eighteenth-century France; 11 The comte de Mirabeau and the works of John Milton and Catharine Macaulay; 12 The Cordeliers Club and the democratisationof English republican ideas; Conclusion; Appendix French translations and reissues of English republican works, 1652-1801; Bibliography; Index.
*The English Republican Tradition and Eighteenth-Century France* offers the first full account of the role played by seventeenth and eighteenth-century English republican ideas in eighteenth-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 eighteenth-century, offering a distinctive trajectory as regards ancient and modern constructions and highlighting variety rather than homogeneity within the tradition. Hammersley thus offers a new and fascinating pers.
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France--Foreign relations--Great Britain. France--Politics and government--18th century. Great Britain--Foreign relations--France. Republicanism--History--France--18th century. Republicanism--History--Great Britain--18th century.