The citizenship experiment contesting the limits of civic equality and participation in the age of revolutions
"The Citizenship Experiment explores the fate of citizenship ideals in the Age of Revolutions. While in the early 1790s citizenship ideals in the Atlantic world converged, the twin shocks of the Haitian Revolution and the French Revolutionary Terror led the American, French, and Dutch publics t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden
Brill
[2020], 2020
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| Series: | Studies in the history of political thought
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- 'The kindred spirit tie of congenial principles'
- Saint-Domingue, rights and empire
- The civilizational limits of citizenship
- The turn away from French universalism
- Uniting 'good' citizens in Thermidorian France
- The post-revolutionary contestation and nationalization of American citizenship
- Forging the Batavian citizen in a post-terror revolution
- Epilogue. The Age of Revolutions as a turning point in the history of citizenship