Citizens and citoyens : republicans and liberals in America and France / Mark Hulliung.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hulliung, Mark.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberalism--United States--History.

Liberalism.

United States.

History.

Republicanism--United States--History.

Republicanism.

Liberalism--France--History.

France.

Republicanism--France--History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 250 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.

Summary:

Hulliung argues that the standard American account of a continuous Jacobin republican tradition--"illiberal to the core"--is fatally misleading. In reality it was the nineteenth-century French liberals who undermined the cause of liberalism, and it was French republicans who eventually saved liberal ideals.

Contents:

1 Republicanism and/or Liberalism? 1

Past and Present

Republics Ancient and Modern

Tocqueville's Return Trip

2 "Rights Talk" in American and French Accents 22

The Persistence of "Rights Talk" in America

From the Old "Rights Talk" to the New

The General Will and Individual Rights

Rights in France: Liberals vs. Republicans

Atlantic Crossings

3 The Institutions and Ethos of Freedom 56

Political Institutions, Liberal and Republican

Mainstream vs. Backwater Republicanism

France: the Search for a Liberal Ethos

America: the Search for a Civic Ethos

4 The Uses of Republican Rhetoric in America 92

Down with the Monarchists

Down with the Aristocrats

Republics and Democracies

Corruption and Conspiracy

5 The Strange Career of Liberalism in France 128

From Liberal to Conservative

From Solidarist to Conservative

From Politique to Mystique

6 Liberal, Illiberal, and Antiliberal Republics 160.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-241) and index.

ISBN:

0674009274

OCLC:

49853271