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AGAINST WAR AND EMPIRE
GENEVA, BRITIAN AND FRANCE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY |
| By: |
Richard Whatmore |
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Hardback |
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£57.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0300175574 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780300175578 |
| Publisher: |
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 July, 2012 |
| Series: |
The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History |
| Pages: |
448 |
| Description: |
As Britain and France became more powerful during the eighteenth century, small states such as Geneva could no longer stand militarily against these commercial monarchies. This book presents an intellectual history of republicans who strove to ensure Geneva's survival as an independent state. |
| Synopsis: |
As Britain and France became more powerful during the eighteenth century, small states such as Geneva could no longer stand militarily against these commercial monarchies. Furthermore, many Genevans felt that they were being drawn into a corrupt commercial world dominated by amoral aristocrats dedicated to the unprincipled pursuit of wealth. In this book Richard Whatmore presents an intellectual history of republicans who strove to ensure Geneva's survival as an independent state. Whatmore shows how the Genevan republicans grappled with the ideas of Rousseau, Voltaire, Bentham, and others in seeking to make modern Europe safe for small states, by vanquishing the threats presented by war and by empire. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Yale University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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