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

By: Lerner, Marc HContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Central European histories ; v. 54.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012Description: xvi, 371 p. : ill., mapsISBN: 9789004214644 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): 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 | Switzerland -- Politics and government -- 18th century | Switzerland -- Politics and government -- 19th century | Switzerland -- Social conditionsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.209494/09033 LOC classification: DQ131 | .L47 2012Online resources: Click to View
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 Zuriputsch -- 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Zuriputsch -- 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.

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