Against War and Empire

Geneva, Britain, and France in the Eighteenth Century

By:

Richard Whatmore

Format:

Hardback

Series:

The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History

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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 by empire.

Author Biography:

Richard Whatmore is professor of intellectual history and the history of political thought at the University of Sussex.

Release date Australia

July 31st, 2012

Author

Richard Whatmore

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Pages

416

Series

The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History

Dimensions

156x235x33

ISBN-13

9780300175578

Product ID

19312186

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