Against war and empire : Geneva, Britain, and France in the eighteenth century / Richard Whatmore.
نوع المادة : نصالسلاسل:Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and historyالناشر:New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2012]تاريخ حقوق النشر: ©2012وصف:xx, 393 pages ; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780300175578
- 0300175574
- Geneva, Britain, and France in the eighteenth century
- DQ140.G3 W53 2012
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | DQ140.G3 W53 2012 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010011136268 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | DQ140.G3 W53 2012 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010011136269 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-370) and index.
PART I. Introduction. 1. 1782 and After ---- PART II. The Crisis of the Republic, 1698-1786. 2. Geneva and France, 1698-1754 --- 3. Rousseau and Geneva --- 4. Geneva and Britain ---- PART III. The Crisis of the Empires, 1782-1802. 5. Cosmopolitan Versus Mercantile Empire --- 6. International Crises and Perpetual Peace --- 7. Revolution and Empire ---- PART IV. Epilogue. 8. The Last Représentant and Philosophic Radicalism.
Whatmore presents an intellectual history of republicans who strove to ensure Geneva's survival as an independent state. Whatmore shows how the Genevan republicans grappled with the ideas of Rousseau, Coltaire, Bentham and others in seeking to make Europe safe for small states, by vanquishing the threats presented by war and by empire.
As Britain and France became more powerful during the eighteenth century, small states such as Geneva could no longer stand militarily against these commercial monarchies. Furthermore, many Genevans felt that they were being drawn into a corrupt commercial world dominated by amoral aristocrats dedicated to the unprincipled pursuit of wealth. In this book Richard Whatmore presents an intellectual history of republicans who strove to ensure Geneva's survival as an independent state. Whatmore shows how the Genevan republicans grappled with the ideas of Rousseau, Voltaire, Bentham, and others in seeking to make modern Europe safe for small states, by vanquishing the threats presented by war and empire. The Genevan attempt to moralize the commercial world, and align national self-interest with perpetual peace and the abandonment of empire, had implications for the French Revolution, the British Empire, and the identity of modern Europe. -- Jacket.