A Laboratory of Liberty
The Transformation of Political Culture in Republican Switzerland, 1750-1848
Biographical note
Marc H. Lerner, Ph. D. (2003) in History, Columbia University, has been Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi since 2005. His research interests are focused on revolutionary Europe in comparative perspective, republicanism, democracy and the transition to political modernity.
Readership
Those interested in revolutionary Europe and atlantic world throughout the entire Age of Revolution (1750-1850), those interested in the history of political thought, republicanism and democratization.
Table of contents
List of Maps
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I The End of the Old Regime in Europe and in the Swiss Eidgenossenschaft
Chapter One On The Ideological Origins of the Revolution in Switzerland
Chapter Two Ambivalent Revolutionaries: The Helvetic Republic in
Revolutionary Europe
Part II Regeneration of a Constructed Past: Continuities and Discontinuities in the Struggle
between Old and New Visions of Switzerland and Europe
Chapter Three The right to Self-Rule: The Debate Over Legitimacy and the
Vaud-Bern Relationship
Chapter Four Two Visions of Political Society in Inner Switzerland, 1829–33
Chapter Five Popular Sovereignty in the Züriputsch
Part III National Accommodation
Chapter Six Radical Conceptions of the Confederation: Popular Sovereignty and the
1845 Revolution in Vaud
Chapter Seven War, Accommodation and the Making of the Modern Constitutional State
Conclusion
Bibliography
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I The End of the Old Regime in Europe and in the Swiss Eidgenossenschaft
Chapter One On The Ideological Origins of the Revolution in Switzerland
Chapter Two Ambivalent Revolutionaries: The Helvetic Republic in
Revolutionary Europe
Part II Regeneration of a Constructed Past: Continuities and Discontinuities in the Struggle
between Old and New Visions of Switzerland and Europe
Chapter Three The right to Self-Rule: The Debate Over Legitimacy and the
Vaud-Bern Relationship
Chapter Four Two Visions of Political Society in Inner Switzerland, 1829–33
Chapter Five Popular Sovereignty in the Züriputsch
Part III National Accommodation
Chapter Six Radical Conceptions of the Confederation: Popular Sovereignty and the
1845 Revolution in Vaud
Chapter Seven War, Accommodation and the Making of the Modern Constitutional State
Conclusion
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