Revolutionary Republicanism

Author : Dirk Wiemann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317081753

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Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism by Dirk Wiemann Pdf

Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism takes stock of developments in the scholarship of seventeenth-century English republicanism by looking at the movements and schools of thought that have shaped the field over the decades: the linguistic turn, the cultural turn and the religious turn. While scholars of seventeenth-century republicanism share their enthusiasm for their field, they have approached their subject in diverse ways. The contributors to the present volume have taken the opportunity to bring these approaches together in a number of case studies covering republican language, republican literary and political culture, and republican religion, to paint a lively picture of the state of the art in republican scholarship. The volume begins with three chapters influenced by the theory and methodology of the linguistic turn, before moving on to address cultural history approaches to English republicanism, including both literary culture and (practical) political culture. The final section of the volume looks at how religion intersected with ideas of republican thought. Taken together the essays demonstrate the vitality and diversity of what was once regarded as a narrow topic of political research.

Author : William Delany
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780595190157

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The Green and the Red by William Delany Pdf

After 1848 political revolution disappears in England and grows in Ireland. Like countries in southern and eastern Europe, Ireland was not developing its population, technology, wealth, or its middle class as was England. Celtic Ireland was at the edge of extinction. How did the Irish turn this around? There were three kinds of response to this challenge: One acquiescence, supporting the Act of Union with ‘Great Britain’ (1800); Two, compromise, partial administrative repeal of the Act of Union, ‘Home Rule’; Three, fight for an independent Irish republic by revolutionary means, like George Washington in 1776. Our analysis focuses on the third response, the Fenians, but the others are always in the picture. How do the Fenians expect to make a revolution successfully? English monarchs, Tory politicians, and English governments spared no military cost to prevent any George Washington allied with France or Germany at their back-door. To discover the revolutionary answers to our question the author goes to the general history and to a detailed analysis of the Fenian social organization, leadership, value perspectives during four time periods. What is the movement’s desired future, republican (‘green’) or socialist (‘red’)? What are the consequences for Ireland, its classes, castes, and groups?

Author : Samuel Hayat
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003824145

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Revolutionary Republicanism by Samuel Hayat Pdf

Revolutionary Republicanism provides a history of French republicanism seen through a seminal episode of its creation – the 1848 revolution. The process of reinventing republicanism in 1848 gave rise to two opposite understandings of republicanism: a moderate one that merely adapted the institutions of representative government to popular sovereignty, and a more radical, ‘social- democratic’ notion of republicanism, based on inclusive forms of representation and aiming at the emancipation of the proletariat. These two notions of republicanism unfolded over the course of the few critical months between the revolution of February 1848 and the uprising of June 1848, which saw the victory of the moderate one. Playing devil’s advocate to the traditional republican history that casts 1848 as a mere step in the continuous history of French republicanism, the book demonstrates that the events of the revolution amounted to a repression of all that the ‘Republic’ had meant up until that point, particularly the forms of participation and popular representation hitherto seen as constituting a republican regime. The text also sets out to chart the history of the ‘democratic and social Republic’, as the socialist and worker revolutionaries of 1848 called the radical republicanism they dreamed of founding and believed would fulfil the republican promise of emancipation. This book will appeal to all those with an interest in the French revolutions, and the history of radical ideas.

Author : Dan Edelstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226184401

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The Terror of Natural Right by Dan Edelstein Pdf

Natural right—the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are “natural” in origin—is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In The Terror of Natural Right, Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right concept of the “enemy of the human race”—an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalities—to authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror. Edelstein further contends that the Jacobins shared a political philosophy that he calls “natural republicanism,” which assumed that the natural state of society was a republic and that natural right provided its only acceptable laws. Ultimately, he proves that what we call the Terror was in fact only one facet of the republican theory that prevailed from Louis’s trial until the fall of Robespierre. A highly original work of historical analysis, political theory, literary criticism, and intellectual history, The Terror of Natural Right challenges prevailing assumptions of the Terror to offer a new perspective on the Revolutionary period.

Author : Geneviève Rousselière
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009477284

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Sharing Freedom by Geneviève Rousselière Pdf

The French have long self-identified as champions of universal emancipation, yet the republicanism they adopted has often been faulted for being exclusionary – of women, foreigners, and religious and ethnic minorities. Can republicanism be an attractive alternative to liberalism, communism, and communitarianism, or is it fundamentally flawed? Sharing Freedom traces the development of republicanism from an older elitist theory of freedom into an inclusive theory of emancipation during the French Revolution. It uncovers the theoretical innovations of Rousseau and of revolutionaries such as Sieyès, Robespierre, Condorcet, and Grouchy. We learn how they struggled to adapt republicanism to the new circumstances of a large and diverse France, full of poor and dependent individuals with little education or experience of freedom. Analysing the argumentative logic that led republicans to justify the exclusion of many, this book renews the republican tradition and connects it with the enduring issues of colonialism, immigration, slavery, poverty and gender.

Author : Richard Whatmore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Economics
ISBN : 1383037434

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Republicanism and the French Revolution by Richard Whatmore Pdf

This volume reassesses Say's political economy by locating the author's ideas amidst the intellectual upheavels of the Ancien Régime and revolutionary France.

Author : Rachel Hammersley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : France
ISBN : 0861932730

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French Revolutionaries and English Republicans by Rachel Hammersley Pdf

Following the cataclysmic events of 1789 some of those involved in the Revolution began to take seriously the possibility of a French republic. Various ideas developed about the form this should take and the models on which it could be based, from those of ancient Greece and Rome, to modern republics such as Geneva or the United States of America. However, a small number of thinkers - centred around the radical, Paris-based Cordeliers Club - looked to the writings of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English republicans for guidance about realising ancient republican ideals in the modern world. This book offers an intellectual history of the Club, through a close analysis of texts and the relationships between their authors. Its main focus is on individual club members and their translations of and borrowings from the works of such thinkers as Marchamont Nedham, James Harrington, Algernon Sidney and Thomas Gordon: the author shows how the Cordeliers adapted and developed those ideas so as to make them serve contemporary circumstances and concerns, and demonstrates that even after the establishment of a French republic in 1792, members of the Cordeliers Club continued to make use of English republican ideas in order to respond to key constitutional and political questions.

Author : Gaby Mahlberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1315600196

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Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism by Gaby Mahlberg Pdf

Author : Leigh Ann Whaley
Publisher : Sutton Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050321309

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Radicals by Leigh Ann Whaley Pdf

This book rewrites the history of the revolution from the viewpoint of the men who lay at its core. The radicals-- these men campaigned for ever more far-reaching reforms both in the legislative assemblies and without.

Author : Dan Edelstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226184395

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The Terror of Natural Right by Dan Edelstein Pdf

"Natural right - the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are "natural" in origin - is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. But during the French Revolution, this tradition was interpreted to justify the most repressive actions of the violent period known as the Terror." "In The Terror of Natural Right, Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right concept of the "enemy of the human race" - an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalities - to authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror. But the significance of the natural right did not end with its legal application. Edelstein argues that the Jacobins shared a political philosophy that he calls "natural republicanism," which assumed the natural state of society was a republic and that natural right provided its only acceptable laws. Ultimately, he argues that what we call the Terror was in fact only one facet of the republican theory that prevailed from Louis's trial until the fall of Robespierre." "A work of historical analysis, political theory, literary criticism, and intellectual history, The Terror of Natural Right challenges prevailing assumptions of the Terror to offer a new perspective on the Revolutionary period."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Richard Whatmore
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691206646

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Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans by Richard Whatmore Pdf

A bloody episode that epitomised the political dilemmas of the eighteenth century In 1798, members of the United Irishmen were massacred by the British amid the crumbling walls of a half-built town near Waterford in Ireland. Many of the Irish were republicans inspired by the French Revolution, and the site of their demise was known as Geneva Barracks. The Barracks were the remnants of an experimental community called New Geneva, a settlement of Calvinist republican rebels who fled the continent in 1782. The British believed that the rectitude and industriousness of these imported revolutionaries would have a positive effect on the Irish populace. The experiment was abandoned, however, after the Calvinists demanded greater independence and more state money for their project. Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans tells the story of a utopian city inspired by a spirit of liberty and republican values being turned into a place where republicans who had fought for liberty were extinguished by the might of empire. Richard Whatmore brings to life a violent age in which powerful states like Britain and France intervened in the affairs of smaller, weaker countries, justifying their actions on the grounds that they were stopping anarchists and terrorists from destroying society, religion and government. The Genevans and the Irish rebels, in turn, saw themselves as advocates of republican virtue, willing to sacrifice themselves for liberty, rights and the public good. Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans shows how the massacre at Geneva Barracks marked an end to the old Europe of diverse political forms, and the ascendancy of powerful states seeking empire and markets—in many respects the end of enlightenment itself.

Author : Paul Anthony Rahe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015021575363

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Republics Ancient and Modern by Paul Anthony Rahe Pdf

An assessment of the ancient Greek city and its subsequent influence. A masterwork of political theory and comparative politics for the classroom. "In a series of sketches touching on everything from the lust for honor to the suspicion of commerce and philosophy, from the role of homoerotic bonds in maintaining military formations to the distrust of technological innovation, Rahe brilliantly reminds us how utterly committed the Greeks were to a politics in which the distribution of honors, education and culture in all their forms, and economic activity were all designed to preserve civic solidarity.--Jack N. Rakove, American Historical Review "[An] extraordinary book. . . . It is a great achievement and will stay as a landmark.--Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Spectator (London) "A work of magisterial erudition.--Journal of American History

Author : Barber Sarah Barber
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781474400732

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Regicide and Republicanism by Barber Sarah Barber Pdf

This study of seventeenth-century monarchy suggests that the arguments which were used to attack the potentially absolutist monarchy of Charles I were not all that different from those used against the constitutional monarchy of today. The seventeenth-century arguments were based on the fiction that the person who fulfilled the office could be distinguished from the office itself. Personal morality and behaviour were vital factors in assessing the value of government. From 1646 onwards there developed two parallel strands of thought. Those who believed in government by laws developed a republican response to the crisis of the 1640s. Those who believed that people made laws attacked Charles I rather than the monarchy itself, supported the regicide and subsequently approved of the rule of Cromwell.

Author : John T. Sidel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Cosmopolitanism
ISBN : 1501755617

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Republicanism, Communism, Islam by John T. Sidel Pdf

"This book provides a denationalized historical contextualization and comparative analysis of the Philippine, Indonesian, and Vietnamese revolutions. It emphasizes and evidences the importance of international circumstances and transoceanic and transcontinental cosmopolitan communities and connections-whether republican, Communist, Islamic, or otherwise- in enabling and impelling these three instances of revolutionary mobilization in Southeast Asia and in shaping their varying trajectories and outcomes"--

Author : Pamela Pilbeam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1995-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349238606

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Republicanism in Nineteenth-Century France, 1814–1871 by Pamela Pilbeam Pdf

This book is a fascinating survey of nineteenth-century republicanism, the first of its kind this century. It investigates why it was that although France was one of the first countries in modern Europe to become a republic in 1792, it was nearly a hundred years before a republic was acceptable to the majority. Pamela Pilbeam suggests that republicanism was a witch's brew of Enlightenment rationality, bloody memories and conflicting socialist expectations. The book concludes that the successful republic of 1871 used the rhetoric of democracy to conceal persistent elitism.