Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
Against War and Empire
Geneva, Britain, and France in the Eighteenth Century
Del i serien Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
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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 by empire.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum: 2012-07-31
- Mått: 156 x 235 x 33 mm
- Vikt: 812 g
- Format: Inbunden
- Språk: Engelska
- Serie: Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
- Antal sidor: 416
- Förlag: Yale University Press
- ISBN: 9780300175578
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Richard Whatmore is professor of intellectual history and the history of political thought at the University of Sussex.
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“Whatmore uncovers the considerable European intellectual impact of a small group of eighteenth-century Genevan reformers, who called themselves the Représentants. . . . In telling their story Whatmore reveals how political Adam Smith’s political economy became in the final decades of the eighteenth century and into the nineteenth century.”—Philippe Steiner, Paris-Sorbonne University
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