The English Republican tradition and eighteenth-century France

<p>The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France offers the first full account of the role played by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English republican ideas in eighteenth-century France.<br><br>Challenging some of the dominant accounts of the republican tradition it revises conventional understandings of what republicanism meant in both Britain and France during the eighteenth century offering a distinctive trajectory as regards ancient and modern constructions and highlighting variety rather than homogeneity within the tradition. Hammersley thus offers a new and fascinating perspective on both the legacy of the English republican tradition and the origins and thought of the French Revolution. The book focuses on a series of case studies featuring such colourful and influential characters as John Toland Viscount Bolingbroke John Wilkes and the Comte de Mirabeau. <br><br>This book will thus be of value to all those interested in the fields of intellectual history and the history of political thought seventeenth and eighteenth-century British history eighteenth-century French history and French Revolution studies.</p>