Legitimacy and Power Politics : : The American and French Revolutions in International Political Culture / / Mlada Bukovansky.

This book examines the causes and consequences of a major transformation in both domestic and international politics: the shift from dynastically legitimated monarchical sovereignty to popularly legitimated national sovereignty. It analyzes the impact of Enlightenment discourse on politics in eighte...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2002
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in International History and Politics ; 114
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter One. Introduction: The Transformation of Legitimacy
  • Chapter Two. International Political Culture and Systemic Change
  • Chapter Three. Old Regime Political Culture
  • Chapter Four. The American Revolution
  • Chapter Five. The French Revolution
  • Chapter Six. Conclusion: Fractured Hegemony and the Seeds of Change
  • Bibliography
  • Index