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Against War and Empire: Geneva, Britain, and France in the Eighteenth Century

Against War and Empire: Geneva, Britain, and France in the Eighteenth Century

Whatmore, Richard

Hardcover

Series: Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History (Hardcover)

General European HistoryGeneral World HistoryInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0300175574
ISBN13: 9780300175578
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Jul 31 2012
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.72
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

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.

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