Against war and empire : Geneva, Britain, and France in the eighteenth century / Richard Whatmore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whatmore, Richard.

Series:

Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.

The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Republicanism--Geneva (Republic)--History--18th century.

Republicanism.

Geneva (Republic)--History--18th century.

Geneva (Republic).

Geneva (Republic)--Foreign relations--France.

France--Foreign relations--Geneva (Republic).

France.

Geneva (Republic)--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--Geneva (Republic).

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 393 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Against war & empire

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. The Genevan attempt to moralize the commercial world, and align national self-interest with perpetual peace and the abandonment of empire, had implications for the French Revolution, the British Empire, and the identity of modern Europe.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. 1782 and After

2. Geneva and France, 1698-1754

3. Rousseau and Geneva

4. Geneva and Britain

5. Cosmopolitan Versus Mercantile Empire

6. International Crises and Perpetual Peace

7. Revolution and Empire

8. The Last Représentant and Philosophic Radicalism

Notes

Index

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786613721754

9781280880445

1280880449

9780300183573

0300183577

OCLC:

802054291