The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France : between the ancients and the moderns

The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France : between the ancients and the moderns

Manchester : Manchester University Press, c2010.

xi, 239 p. ; 24 cm.

320.444 H224 2010

(OCoLC)718710282

Account of the role played by 17th & 18th century English Republican ideas in 18th century France. Challenging some of the dominant accounts of the Republican tradition, it revises conventional understandings of what Republicanism meant in both Britain and France during 18th century.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-229) and index.
Contents: 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 abbé 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.
L2012M34

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