In a <i>tour de force</i> of comparative intellectual history, Mark Hulliung sharply challenges conventional wisdom about the political nature of the sister republics, America and France. Hulliung argues that the standard American account of a continuous Jacobin republican tradition--illibera
Citizens and Citoyens: Republicans and Liberals in America and France
โ Scribed by Mark Hulliung
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 266
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
Hulliung argues that the standard American account of a continuous Jacobin republican tradition--"illiberal to the core"--is fatally misleading. In reality it was the nineteenth-century French liberals who undermined the cause of liberalism, and it was French republicans who eventually saved liberal ideals.
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