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The Republican Alternative
The Republican Alternative seeks to move beyond the mere notion of scholarly inquiry into the republic—the subject of recent rediscovery by political historians interested in Europe’s intellectual heritage—by investigating the practical similarities and differences between two early modern republics, as well as their self-images and interactions during the turbulent seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Among the world’s most economically successful societies, Switzerland and the Netherlands laid much of the foundation for their prosperity during the early modern period discussed here. This volume attempts to clarify the special character of these two countries as they developed, including issues of religious plurality, the republican form of government, and an increasingly commercially-driven agrarian society.
La Europa de la ilustración
Esta coleccion nacio de la voluntad de cinco editores europeos -Laterza, en Italia, Basil Blackwell, en Gran Bretana, Beck Verlag, en Alemania, Le Seuil, en Francia y Critica en Espana- interesados en colaborar, desde el ambito de la historia de la cultura, a la construccion de la Union Europea. Los libros que se han ido publicando en esta coleccion, que recoge autores de todos los paises y que ya ha sido traducida a lenguas como el turco, el japones, el portugues, el checo o el bulgaro, han sido consensuados siempre por los cinco editores y refrendados por el prestigioso historiador medievalista frances Jacques Le Goff, director de la coleccion. El historiador Ulrich Im Hof muestra en esta obra la organizacion social, el ambiente de las cortes europeas, los presupuestos filosoficos del movimiento ilustrado, sus instituciones caracteristicas, para ofrecer una panoramica certera y global del primer movimiento paneuropeo de vocacion laica.
The Enlightenment
Im Hof describes the universities, academies, salons, and reading societies from which the principal ideas of the Enlightenment occured, and he examines their diffusion, interaction, and influence. Ideas evolved from the enlightenment include the idea o f Natural Right, laissez faire economics, and the freedom of the subject, and provided the basis for democracy, enlightened despotism, and anarchy.
A Contested Nation
This book examines the ways in which the Swiss defined their national identity in the long nineteenth century, in the face of a changing domestic and international background. Its narrative begins in 1761, when the first Swiss patriotic society of national significance was founded, and ends in 1891, when the Swiss celebrated their 600-year existence as a nation in a monumental national festival. While conceding that the creation of a nation-state in 1848 marked a watershed in the history of Swiss nation-formation, the author does not focus one-sidedly - as many others have done - on the activities of the nationalizing state. Instead, he attributes a key role to the competitive and contentious struggles over the shaping of public institutions and over the symbolic representation of the nation. These struggles, to which the nation-state and civil society contributed in equal measure, were framed increasingly along national lines.
Nation Building
Wimmer contrasts Switzerland and Belgium to demonstrate how the early development of voluntary organizations enhanced nation building; he examines Botswana and Somalia to illustrate how providing public goods can bring diverse political constituencies together; and he shows that the differences between China and Russia indicate how a shared linguistic space may help build political alliances across ethnic boundaries. Wimmer then reveals, based on the statistical analysis of large-scale datasets, that these mechanisms are at work around the world and explain nation building better than competing arguments such as democratic governance or colonial legacies. He also shows that when political alliances crosscut ethnic divides and when most ethnic communities are represented at the highest levels of government, the general populace will identify with the nation and its symbols, further deepening national political integration.
Les Lumières en Europe
Le livre s'ouvre sur une présentation du siècle des Lumières par les concepts mêmes qui le désignent dans toute l'Europe : Enlightenment, Lumières, Illuminismo, Aufklärung. Puis il évoque les transformations de la société entière, des cours princières aux paysans et aux travailleurs, dans les différents Etats devenus adultes. Les acteurs des Lumières (académies, salons, sociétés, journaux) sont situés ici dans leurs principaux domaines : philosophie, droit, politique, économie, sciences... C'est enfin dans leur aspect dynamique de mouvement d'émancipation que sont analysées les Lumières, jusqu'à ce que les mouvements antagonistes l'orientent dans une direction libérale progressiste.
A Laboratory of Liberty
Based on a tradition of political innovation, Swiss citizens recalibrated their understanding of liberty and republicanism through public political debates, during the revolutionary transformation to a rights-based society. The resulting hybrid political culture enhances our understanding of the international Age of Revolution.
Das Europa der Aufklärung
Aufklarung / Gesellschaft / Wissenschaft / Politik
