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OverviewFollowing the cataclysmic events of 1789 some of those involved in the Revolution began to take seriously the possibility of a French republic. Various ideas developed about the form this should take and the models on which it could be based, from those of ancient Greece and Rome, to modern republics such as Geneva or the United States of America. However, a small number of thinkers - centred around the radical, Paris-based Cordeliers Club - looked to thewritings of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English republicans for guidance about realising ancient republican ideals in the modern world. This book offers an intellectual history of the Club, through a close analysisof texts and the relationships between their authors. Its main focus is on individual club members and their translations of and borrowings from the works of such thinkers as Marchamont Nedham, James Harrington, Algernon Sidney and Thomas Gordon: the author shows how the Cordeliers adapted and developed those ideas so as to make them serve contemporary circumstances and concerns, and demonstrates that even after the establishment of a French republic in 1792, members of the Cordeliers Club continued to make use of English republican ideas in order to respond to key constitutional and political questions. Rachel Hammersley is Senior Lecturer in History at Newcastle University. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rachel HammersleyPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd Imprint: Royal Historical Society Volume: v. 43 Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9780861932733ISBN 10: 0861932730 Pages: 206 Publication Date: 19 May 2005 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationRACHEL HAMMERSLEY is Professor of Intellectual History at Newcastle University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |