TY - BOOK AU - Hammersley,Rachel TI - The English Republican tradition and eighteenth-century France: Between the ancients and the moderns T2 - Studies in Early Modern European History SN - 9781847793041 AV - JN2451 .E545 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - Manchester PB - Manchester University Press KW - France KW - Foreign relations KW - Great Britain KW - Politics and government KW - 18th century KW - Republicanism KW - History KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - *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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=515128&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -