The Citizenship Experiment

Contesting the Limits of Civic Equality and Participation in the Age of Revolutions
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-22570-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Political Thought

The Citizenship Experiment explores the fate of citizenship ideals in the Age of Revolutions. While in the early 1790s citizenship ideals in the Atlantic world converged, the twin shocks of the Haitian Revolution and the French Revolutionary Terror led the American, French, and Dutch publics to abandon the notion of a shared, Atlantic, revolutionary vision of citizenship. Instead, they forged conceptions of citizenship that were limited to national contexts, restricted categories of voters, and ‘advanced’ stages of civilization. Weaving together the convergence and divergence of an Atlantic revolutionary discourse, debates on citizenship, and the intellectual repercussions of the Terror and the Haitian Revolution, Koekkoek offers a fresh perspective on the revolutionary 1790s as a turning point in the history of citizenship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Koekkoek, René

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Ethische Themen & Debatten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Cover Illustration

Introduction

1Citizenship in the Age of Revolutions

2The Terror and the Haitian Revolution

3A Comparative Approach to the ‘Atlantic Thermidor’

1‘The Kindred Spirit Tie of Congenial Principles’

1Rights Declarations and the Constitutional Framework of Citizenship

2Converging Revolutionary Citizenship Ideals

3The French Revolution and the Heyday of a Transatlantic Ideal of Citizenship

4Regimes of Exclusion

2Saint-Domingue, Rights and Empire

1The Logic of Rights and the Realm of Empire

2The Nation’s Colonial Citizens

3Slavery and Civic Inequality in the US before Saint-Domingue

3The Civilizational Limits of Citizenship

1The Enlightenment Language of Civilization

2Unity and Hierarchy in the French Empire

3Levelling Principles and Remorseless Savages

4The Turn Away from French Universalism

1Citizenship and Inequality in the Dutch Republican Empire

2‘The vile machinations of men calling themselves philosophers’

3The French Colonial Thermidor

5Uniting ‘good’ Citizens in Thermidorian France

1The Revolutionary Political Culture of Citizenship, 1792–1794

2Good Citizen / Bad Citizen

3Isolating the Citizen

4What is a Good Citizen? Redefining Civic Virtues

5Narrowing Down Political Citizenship

6The Post-Revolutionary Contestation and Nationalization of American Citizenship

1A Burgeoning Partisan Public Sphere

2‘Whether France is Saved or Ruined, is still Problematical’

3Political Societies, Faction, and the Limits of Democratic Citizenship

4Anti-Jacobinism and the American Citizenship Model

7Forging the Batavian Citizen in a Post-Terror Revolution

1Portraying the Terror between Orangist Restoration and Batavian Revolution

2Limiting Power, Protecting Rights: The Terror and the Need for a Constitution

3Channelling the Participation of the People

4Nationalization

5The End of the Democratic-Republican Citizen

Epilogue. The Age of Revolutions as a Turning Point in the History of Citizenship

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

René Koekkoek is Assistant Professor in Political History at Utrecht University. His research focuses on the history of political thought and culture in the early-modern Atlantic world. This is his first book.