Against war and empire : Geneva, Britain, and France in the eighteenth century

Richard Whatmore

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 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.

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書名 Against war and empire : Geneva, Britain, and France in the eighteenth century
著作者等 Whatmore, Richard
書名別名 Against war & empire
シリーズ名 The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
出版元 Yale University Press
刊行年月 c2012
ページ数 xx, 393 p.
大きさ 25 cm
ISBN 9780300175578
NCID BB11572404
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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