Against War and Empire Geneva, Britain, and France in the Eighteenth Century |
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| Author:
| Whatmore, Richard |
| Series title: | The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-300-17557-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2012 |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $75.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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.