An Historical and Political View of the Constitution and Revolutions of Geneva
Author: Sir Francis d' Ivernois
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Published: 1784
Total Pages: 414
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Author: Sir Francis d' Ivernois
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Published: 1784
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Published: 1784
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: François d'. Ivernois
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Published: 1784
Total Pages: 374
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1959
Total Pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9780691005690
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Author: Richard Whatmore
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012-07-31
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 0300175574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs 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: Richard Price
Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichard Price was a loyal, although dissenting, subject of Great Britain who thought the British treatment of their colonies as wrong, not only prudentially, financially, economically, militarily, and politically, but, above all, morally wrong. He expressed these views in his first pamphlet early in 1776. It concluded with a plea for the cessation of hostilities by Great Britain and reconciliation. Its analyses, arguments, and conclusions, however, along with its admiration for the colonists, their moral position and qualities, could hardly fail to contribute to their reluctant recognition that there was no real alternative to independence. Price found some of his views not only misunderstood but vilified by negative critics in the ensuing controversy. So he wrote a second pamphlet which was published in early 1777. He expanded his analysis of liberty, extended its application to the war with America, and greatly expanded his discussion of the economic impact upon Great Britain. After the war, in 1784, he published a third pamphlet on the importance of the American Revolution and the means of making it a benefit to the world, appending an extensive letter from the Frenchman, Turgot. Implicitly the letter regards Price as a perceptive theorist of the revolution; explicitly it identifies the problems facing the prospective new nation and expresses a wish that it will fulfill its role s the hope of the world. Selections in the appendices present a part of the pamphlet controversy and the selection of correspondence shows how seriously Price was regarded by Revolutionary leaders.