A Laboratory of Liberty

The Transformation of Political Culture in Republican Switzerland, 1750-1848
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-20515-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 54, 372 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 794 g

Reihe: Studies in Central European Histories

Looking at a series of Swiss political debates, this book offers a case study of a revolutionary transformation to a rights-based society and political culture. Based on a tradition of political innovation and experimentation, Swiss citizens recalibrated their understanding of liberty and republicanism from 1750 to 1848. The resulting hybrid political culture centered around republican ideas, changing understandings of liberty and self-rule. Drawing from the public political debates in three characteristic cantons, A Laboratory of Liberty places the Swiss transformation into a European context. Current trends in Revolutionary studies focus on the revolution in its global context and this book demonstrates that the Swiss case enhances our understanding of the debates over the nature of liberty in the transatlantic world during the Age of Revolution.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lerner, Marc

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction


Part I The End of the Old Regime in Europe and in the Swiss Eidgenossenschaft

Chapter One On The Ideological Origins of the Revolution in Switzerland

Chapter Two Ambivalent Revolutionaries: The Helvetic Republic in
Revolutionary Europe

Part II Regeneration of a Constructed Past: Continuities and Discontinuities in the Struggle
between Old and New Visions of Switzerland and Europe

Chapter Three The right to Self-Rule: The Debate Over Legitimacy and the
Vaud-Bern Relationship

Chapter Four Two Visions of Political Society in Inner Switzerland, 1829–33

Chapter Five Popular Sovereignty in the Züriputsch

Part III National Accommodation

Chapter Six Radical Conceptions of the Confederation: Popular Sovereignty and the
1845 Revolution in Vaud

Chapter Seven War, Accommodation and the Making of the Modern Constitutional State

Conclusion

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Marc H. Lerner, Ph. D. (2003) in History, Columbia University, has been Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi since 2005. His research interests are focused on revolutionary Europe in comparative perspective, republicanism, democracy and the transition to political modernity.