The Political Culture of the Sister Republics, 1794-1806 : : France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Italy / / ed. by Mart Rutjes, Joris Oddens, Erik Jacobs.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Arlettaz, Silvia,; Broussy, Antoine,; Burrows, Simon,; Crook, Malcolm,; De Francesco, Antonino,; Ferrari, Valeria,; Fontana, Biancamaria,; Holenstein, André,; Ihalainen, Pasi,; Jacobs, Erik,; Jainchill, Andrew,; Jourdan, Annie,; Lenci, Mauro,; Oddens, Joris,; Rutjes, Mart,; Serna, Pierre,; Velema, Wyger R. E.,; Visconti, Katia,; Weeber, Urte,; Würgler, Andreas,
• HerausgeberIn: Jacobs, Erik,; Oddens, Joris,; Rutjes, Mart,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Intellectual and Political History ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 5 halftones

In this book, leading historians of the French, Batavian, Helvetic, Cisalpine, and Neapolitan revolutions bridge the gap between the historiographies of the so-called Sister Republics and explore political culture as a set of discourses or political practices. Parliamentary practices, the comparabil...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Timeline of the Sister Republics (1794-1806)
• The political culture of the Sister Republics
• ‘The political passions of other nations’. National choices and the European order in the writings of Germaine de Staël
• 1. The transformation of republicanism
• The transformation of republicanism in the Sister Republics
• ‘Republic’ and ‘democracy’ in Dutch late eighteenth-century revolutionary discourse
• New wine in old wineskins. Republicanism in the Helvetic Republic
• 2. Political concepts and languages
• Revolutionary concepts and languages in the Sister Republics of the late 1790s
• Useful citizens. Citizenship and democracy in the Batavian Republic, 1795-1801
• From rights to citizenship to the Helvetian indigénat. Political integration of citizens under the Helvetic Republic
• The battle over ‘democracy’ in Italian political thought during the revolutionary triennio, 1796-1799
• 3. The invention of democratic parliamentary practices
• Parliamentary practices in the Sister Republics in the light of the French experience
• Making the most of national time. Accountability, transparency, and term limits in the first Dutch Parliament (1796-1797)
• The invention of democratic parliamentary practices in the Helvetic Republic. Some remarks
• The Neapolitan republican experiment of 1799. Legislation, balance of power, and the workings of democracy between theory and practice
• 4. Press, politics, and public opinion
• Censorship and press liberty in the Sister Republics. Some reflections
• 1798: A turning point? Censorship in the Batavian Republic
• Censorship and public opinion. Press and politics in the Helvetic Republic (1798-1803)
• Liberty of press and censorship in the first Cisalpine Republic
• 5. The Sister Republics and France
• Small nation, big sisters
• The national dimension in the Batavian Revolution. Political discussions, institutions, and constitutions
• The constitutional debate in the Helvetic Republic in 1800-1801. Between French influence and national self-government
• An unwelcome Sister Republic. Re-reading political relations between the Cisalpine Republic and the French Directory
• Bibliography
• List of contributors
• Notes
• Index