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A laboratory of liberty

by Lerner, Marc H.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: Studies in Central European histories, 1547-1217 ; . v. 54 Published by : Brill, (Leiden ; | Boston :) Physical details: xvi, 371 p. : ill., maps.
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 conditions. | Electronic books.
Year: 2012
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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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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