TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lerner,Marc H.
TI  - A laboratory of liberty: the transformation of political culture in republican Switzerland, 1750-1848 
T2  - Studies in Central European histories,
SN  - 9789004214644
AV  - DQ131 .L47 2012
U1  - 306.209494/09033 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Switzerland
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Liberty
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Republicanism
KW  - Self-determination, National
KW  - Revolutions
KW  - Social change
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material; Marc H. Lerner --; Introduction; Marc H. Lerner --; The End of the Old Regime in Europe and in the Swiss Eidgenossenschaft On the Ideological Origins of the Revolution in Switzerland; Marc H. Lerner --; Ambivalent Revolutionaries: The Helvetic Republic in Revolutionary Europe; Marc H. Lerner --; Regeneration of A Constructed Past: Continuities and Discontinuities in The Struggle Between old and New Visions of Switzerland and Europe The Right to Self-Rule: The Debate over Legitimacy and the Vaud-Bern Relationship; Marc H. Lerner --; Two Visions of Political Society in Inner Switzerland, 1829–33; Marc H. Lerner --; Popular Sovereignty in the Züriputsch; Marc H. Lerner --; National Accommodation Radical Conceptions of the Confederation: Popular Sovereignty and the 1845 Revolution in Vaud; Marc H. Lerner --; War, Accommodation and the Making of the Modern Constitutional State; Marc H. Lerner --; Conclusion; Marc H. Lerner --; Bibliography; Marc H. Lerner --; Index; Marc H. Lerner; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - Looking at a series of Swiss political debates, this book offers a case study of a revolutionary transformation to a rights-based society and political culture. Based on a tradition of political innovation and experimentation, Swiss citizens recalibrated their understanding of liberty and republicanism from 1750 to 1848. The resulting hybrid political culture centered around republican ideas, changing understandings of liberty and self-rule. Drawing from the public political debates in three characteristic cantons, A Laboratory of Liberty places the Swiss transformation into a European context. Current trends in Revolutionary studies focus on the revolution in its global context and this book demonstrates that the Swiss case enhances our understanding of the debates over the nature of liberty in the transatlantic world during the Age of Revolution
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004214644
ER  -