Against War and Empire : Geneva, Britain, and France in the Eighteenth Century

English

Series: The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-C Ser.

ISBN: 0300175574

EAN: 9780300175578

Category: History / Europe / Western/Political Science / History & Theory/Political Science / International Relations / General/

Publisher: Yale University Press

Release Date: 07/31/2012

Synopsis: 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 Genevas 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.

Against War and Empire : Geneva, Britain, and France in the Eighteenth Century

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.31 inches

Width: 6.13 inches

Length: 9.25 inches

Weight: 27.27 oz

Pages: 416