A laboratory of liberty the transformation of political culture in republican Switzerland, 1750-1848 / [electronic resource] :
by Marc H. Lerner.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
- xvi, 371 p. : ill., maps.
- Studies in Central European histories, v. 54 1547-1217 ; .
- Studies in Central European histories ; v. 54. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Political culture--History--Switzerland--18th century. Political culture--History--Switzerland--19th century. Liberty--Political aspects--History.--Switzerland Republicanism--History.--Switzerland Self-determination, National--History.--Switzerland Revolutions--History.--Switzerland Social change--History.--Switzerland
Switzerland--Politics and government--18th century. Switzerland--Politics and government--19th century. Switzerland--Social conditions.