ISBN:
9789004214644
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900421464X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xvi, 371 p.)
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maps.
Series Statement:
Studies in Central European histories 1547-1217 v. 54
Series Statement:
Studies in Central European histories v. 54
Parallel Title:
Print version Laboratory of liberty
DDC:
306.20949409033
Keywords:
Political culture History
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18th century
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Switzerland
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Political culture History
;
19th century
;
Switzerland
;
Liberty Political aspects
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History
;
Switzerland
;
Republicanism History
;
Switzerland
;
Self-determination, National History
;
Switzerland
;
Revolutions History
;
Switzerland
;
Social change History
;
Switzerland
;
Political culture History 18th century
;
Political culture History 19th century
;
Liberty Political aspects
;
History
;
Republicanism History
;
Self-determination, National History
;
Revolutions History
;
Social change History
;
Republicanism History
;
Self-determination, National History
;
Revolutions History
;
Social change History
;
Liberty Political aspects
;
History
;
Political culture History 19th century
;
Political culture History 18th century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Liberty ; Political aspects
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Political culture
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Politics and government
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Republicanism
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Revolutions
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Self-determination, National
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Social change
;
Social conditions
;
History
;
Switzerland Politics and government
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18th century
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Switzerland Politics and government
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19th century
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Switzerland Social conditions
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Switzerland
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Switzerland Social conditions
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Switzerland Politics and government 19th century
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Switzerland Politics and government 18th century
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Switzerland Politics and government 19th century
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Switzerland Politics and government 18th century
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Switzerland Social conditions
;
Switzerland
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Electronic books History
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Based on a tradition of political innovation, Swiss citizens recalibrated their understanding of liberty and republicanism through public political debates, during the revolutionary transformation to a rights-based society. The resulting hybrid political culture enhances our understanding of the international Age of Revolution
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Pt. 1. The end of the Old Regime in Europe and in the Swiss EidgenossenschaftOn 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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