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

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Superior document:Studies in Central European histories, v. 54
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Studies in Central European histories ; v. 54.
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Physical Description:xvi, 371 p. :; ill., maps.
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Table of 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.