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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sudhir Hazareesingh |
ISBN: | 0199247943 9780199247943 0199279500 9780199279500 |
OCLC Number: | 857198775 |
Description: | 339 pages : illustrations |
Contents: | Introduction: Revisiting the Intellectual Transformation of Nineteenth-Century France ; 1. Between Republicanism and Positivism: Emile Littre and the Founding of The Third Republic ; 2. Centralist Defender of the State: The Eclectic Republicanism of Charles Dupont-White ; 3. From Democratic Advocate to Monarchist Critic of the Republic: The Ambiguous Republicanism of Etienne Vacherot ; 4. A Republican Saint-Simonist: Eugene Pelletan and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Republicanism ; 5. Neo-Kantian Moralist and Activist: Jules Barni and the Establishment of the Municipalist Republic ; Conclusion: The Origins of the Third Republic Reconsidered |
Responsibility: | Sudhir Hazareesingh. |
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Challenges many of the pieties of standard accounts of the evolution of the republican tradition ... important revisionist work. * Times Literary Supplement * Honest and erudite. * Political Studies * Sudhir Hazareesingh is to be congratulated on expanding from his previous work on the under-studied Second Empire to the early years of the Third Republic, with a backward glance to the pre-1851 decades. He has added a distinctive interpretation of the French version of republicanism that is markedly different from its rival Anglo-American affiliation with liberalism...Wide-ranging and close scrutiny of the texts ... By his subtlety of analysis and sustainedsensitivity to nuance and complexity, steering the reader circumspectly through the shoals of improvised theory and intransigent practice, we are treated to a closely documented scrutiny of a liberal republicanism groping its way towards a consensual Republic. * History of Political Thought * Review from previous edition The most fascinating aspect of this closely analysed volume, that will be a treasure trove for specialists, are the numerous illustrations of continuity in liberal thought throughout the nineteenth century. * English Historical Review * Read more...

