By Rachel Hammersley
Challenging a number of the dominant debts of the republican culture, it revises traditional understandings of what republicanism intended in either Britain and France throughout the eighteenth-century, providing a particular trajectory as regards historic and glossy buildings and highlighting style instead of homogeneity in the culture. Hammersley hence deals a brand new and interesting point of view on either the legacy of the English republican culture and the origins and regarded the French Revolution. The ebook is targeted round a chain of case reviews, which concentrate on a couple of vibrant and influential characters together with John Toland, viscount Bolingbroke, John Wilkes, and the comte de Mirabeau.
This e-book will therefore be of worth to all these drawn to the fields of highbrow historical past and the background of political idea, 17th and eighteenth-century British heritage, eighteenth-century French heritage and French Revolution studies.
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