French Revolutionaries and English Republicans

Name: French Revolutionaries and English Republicans
Brand: Royal Historical Society
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By Rachel Hammersley

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Following the cataclysmic events of 1789, some of those involved in the Revolution began to take seriously the possibility of a French republic. Various ideas developed about the form this should take and the models on which it could be based, from those of ancient Greece and Rome, to modern republics such as Geneva or the United States of America. However, a small number of thinkers - centred around the radical, Paris-based Cordeliers Club - looked to the writings of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English republicans for guidance about realising ancient republican ideals in the modern world. This book offers an intellectual history of the Club, through a close analysis of texts and the relationships between their authors. Its main focus is on individual club members and their translations of and borrowings from the works of such thinkers as Marchamont Nedham, James Harrington, Algernon Sidney and Thomas Gordon: the author shows how the Cordeliers adapted and developed those ideas so as to make them serve contemporary circumstances and concerns, and demonstrates that even after the establishment of a French republic in 1792, members of the Cordeliers Club continued to make use of English republican ideas in order to respond to key constitutional and political questions. Rachel Hammersley is Senior Lecturer in History at Newcastle University.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 208
Release Date:: 2011-07-21
Publication Date:: 2011-07-21
Publisher:: Royal Historical Society
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1843836467
ISBN13:: 9781843836469
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 324 g
Height:: 156 cm
Width:: 234 cm
Thickness:: 11 cm

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