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Author : Sarah Maza
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 2003-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674010468
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Author : Longmans, Green and co
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Page : 630 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 1824
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Author : Rachel Hammersley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 11,22 MB
Release : 2005
Category : France
ISBN : 9780861932733
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.
Author : Paul Langford
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0199246408
In the seventeenth century the English were often depicted as a nation of barbarians, fanatics, and king-killers. Two hundred years later they were more likely to be seen as the triumphant possessors of a unique political stability, vigorous industrial revolution, and a world-wide empire.These may have been British achievements; but the virtues which brought about this transformation tended to be perceived as specifically English. Ideas of what constituted Englishness changed from a stock notion of waywardness and unpredictability to one of discipline and dedication. The evolutionof the so-called national character - today once more the subject of scrutiny and debate - is traced through the impressions and analyses of foreign observers, and related to English ambitions and anxieties during a period of intense change.
Author : Bodleian Library
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Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,99 MB
Release : 1840
Category : English literature
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Page : 928 pages
File Size : 48,50 MB
Release : 1998
Category : English literature
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Author : University of Sydney
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Page : 476 pages
File Size : 23,99 MB
Release : 1892
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Author : Warren Jerrold Wolfe
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Page : 490 pages
File Size : 21,54 MB
Release : 1952
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Author : Paris bibl. nat, dépt. des imprimés
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Page : 696 pages
File Size : 18,77 MB
Release : 1878
Category : Great Britain
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Page : 446 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Eighteenth century
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