The Ideological Origins of the Batavian Revolution History and Politics in the Dutch Republic 1747–1800
The "age of the democratic revolution" 1 in the Dutch Republic cul minated in two revolutions : the aborted Patriot Revolution of 1787 and the more successful Batavian Revolution of 1795. For the United Provinces that age had begun after a series of crises in 1747 and resulted in the un...
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1973, 1973
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1973 |
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Table of Contents:
- I. The constitutional argument
- A. The Eighty Years War
- B. The Era of “True Liberty” (Ware Vrijheid)
- C. The Oligarchy and Slingelandt
- II. The revolution of 1747 and the Stadhouderate
- A. Invasion and Revolution
- B. Reaction after 1754
- 1. Elie Luzac and the Stadhoudersgezinden
- 2. Jan Wagenaar and the Loevesteiners
- 3. The Shade of Johan de Witt
- III. The development of patriot and orangist ideology
- A. New Ideas and Old History: Socrates and the Beggars
- B. New Organizations: Economic Patriotism
- C. Pieter Paulus on the Stadhouder and the Constitution
- D. Simon Stijl and the New Enlightened History
- E. J.D. van der Capellen, “Born Regent” and Patriot
- IV. The patriots prepare “the democratic revolution”
- A. The Patriot Call to Arms
- B. Hollan’s Wealth: A Summary of the Orangist Position
- C. The Call for Constitutional Restoration
- 1. Political Organization and Patriot Activity
- 2. Political Theory in a Patriot Program
- D. The Response in Theory and Practice
- 1. Sovereignty Defended by A. Kluit
- 2. Patriots and Organists Ready for Battle
- 3. The Failure of the Democratic Patriot Revolution
- V. The end of the constitutional argument220 A. “Civil Liberty” and “Equality” under Orange Restoration
- B. Politics, Philosophy and History in 1793
- 1. S.I. Wiselius: Political Enlightenment
- 2. A. Kluit: The Rights of Man
- C. The End of the Republic, Long Live the Republic
- 1. French Invasion and National Assembly
- 2. The Batavian Republic: Constitution and Coup
- 3. The Old Republic in Retrospect
- Conclusion