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Author Lerner, Marc H.

Title A laboratory of liberty [electronic resource] : the transformation of political culture in republican Switzerland, 1750-1848 / by Marc H. Lerner.

Imprint Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

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Description xvi, 371 p. : ill., maps.
Series Studies in Central European histories, 1547-1217 ; v. 54
Studies in Central European histories ; v. 54.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9789004205154 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9789004214644 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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