Hammersley, Rachel, 1974-

The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France between the ancients and the moderns / [electronic resource] : Rachel Hammersley. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, c2010. - xi, 239 p. - Studies in early modern European history .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-229) and index.

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 abb�e 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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
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Republicanism--History--France--18th century.
Republicanism--History--Great Britain--17th century.
Republicanism--History--Great Britain--18th century.


France--Politics and government--18th century.
France--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Foreign relations--France.


Electronic books.

JN2451 / .H36 2010eb

320.44409033

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