Leading historians of the French, Batavian, Helvetic, Cisalpine and Neapolitan revolutions bridge the gap between the historiographies of the so-called 'Sister' Republics. They explore political culture as a set of discourses or political practices. Parliamentary practices, the comparability of 'universal' political concepts, late-eighteenth century Republicanism, the relationship between press and politics, and the interaction between the Sister Republics and France are studied from a comparative, transnational perspective.
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- Table of Contents
- Timeline of the Sister Republics (1794-1806)
- The political culture of the Sister Republics
- Joris Oddens and Mart Rutjes
- ‘The political passions of other nations’
- National choices and the European order in the writings of Germaine de Staël
- 1. The transformation of republicanism
- The transformation of republicanism in the Sister Republics / Andrew Jainchill
- ‘Republic’ and ‘democracy’ in Dutch late eighteenth-century revolutionary discourse / Wyger R. E. Velema
- New wine in old wineskins: Republicanism in the Helvetic Republic / Urte Weeber
- 2. Political concepts and languages
- Revolutionary concepts and languages in the Sister Republics of the late 1790s / Pasi Ihalainen
- Useful citizens. Citizenship and democracy in the Batavian Republic, 1795-1801 / Mart Rutjes
- From rights to citizenship to the Helvetian indigénat: Political integration of citizens under the Helvetic Republic / Silvia Arlettaz
- The battle over ‘democracy’ in Italian political thought during the revolutionary triennio, 1796-1799 / Mauro Lenci
- 3. The invention of democratic parliamentary practices
- Parliamentary practices in the Sister Republics in the light of the French experience / Malcolm Crook
- Making the most of national time: Accountability, transparency, and term limits in the first Dutch Parliament (1796-1797) / Joris Oddens
- The invention of democratic parliamentary practices in the Helvetic Republic: Some remarks / André Holenstein
- The Neapolitan republican experiment of 1799: Legislation, balance of power, and the workings of democracy between theory and practice / Valeria Ferrari
- 4. Press, politics, and public opinion
- Censorship and press liberty in the Sister Republics: Some reflections / Simon Burrows
- 1798: A turning point? : Censorship in the Batavian Republic / Erik Jacobs
- Censorship and public opinion: Press and politics in the Helvetic Republic (1798-1803) / Andreas Würgler
- Liberty of press and censorship in the first Cisalpine Republic / Katia Visconti
- 5. The Sister Republics and France
- Small nation, big sisters / Pierre Serna
- The national dimension in the Batavian Revolution: Political discussions, institutions, and constitutions / Annie Jourdan
- The constitutional debate in the Helvetic Republic in 1800-1801: Between French influence and national self-government / Antoine Broussy
- An unwelcome Sister Republic: Re-reading political relations between the Cisalpine Republic and the French Directory / Antonino De Francesco
- Bibliography
- List of contributors
- Notes
- Index
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