The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France between the ancients and the moderns /

Main Author: Hammersley, Rachel, 1974-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, c2010.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10623358
Table of Contents:
  • Real Whigs and Huguenots. From English republicans to British commonwealthmen ; The Huguenot connection
  • Bolingbroke and France. Viscount Bolingbroke : an atypical commonwealthman ; Bolingbroke's French associates ; A French commonwealthman : the abbβe Mably
  • Commonwealthmen, Wilkites and France. The commonwealth tradition and the Wilkite controversies ; The British origins of the chevalier d'Eon's patriotism ; The British origins of the baron d'Holbach's atheism ; The British origins of Jean-Paul Marat's revolutionary radicalism
  • English republicans and the French Revolution. Parallel revolutions : seventeenth-century England and eighteenth-century France ; The comte de Mirabeau and the works of John Milton and Catharine Macaulay ; The Cordeliers Club and the democratisation of English republican ideas.