Whatmore Richard Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans: The Genevans and the Irish in Time of Revolution 9780691168777

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Автор: Whatmore Richard
Название: Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans: The Genevans and the Irish in Time of Revolution
ISBN: 9780691168777
Издательство: Wiley
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История Британии и Ирландии

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

Революции, восстания и мятежи

ISBN-10: 0691168776
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 440
Вес: 0.95 кг.
Дата издания: 12.11.2019
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 20 b/w illus.
Размер: 167 x 243 x 38
Читательская аудитория: Tertiary education (us: college)
Подзаголовок: The genevans and the irish in time of revolution
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A bloody episode that epitomized the political dilemmas of the eighteenth century

In 1798, members of the United Irishmen were massacred by the British amid the crumbling walls of a half-built town near Waterford in Ireland. Many of the Irish were republicans inspired by the French Revolution, and the site of their demise was known as Genevan Barracks. The Barracks were the remnants of an experimental community called New Geneva, a settlement of Calvinist republican rebels who fled the continent in 1782. The British believed that the rectitude and industriousness of these imported revolutionaries would have a positive effect on the Irish populace. The experiment was abandoned, however, after the Calvinists demanded greater independence and more state money for their project. Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans tells the story of a utopian city inspired by a spirit of liberty and republican values being turned into a place where republicans who had fought for liberty were extinguished by the might of empire.

Richard Whatmore brings to life a violent age in which powerful states like Britain and France intervened in the affairs of smaller, weaker countries, justifying their actions on the grounds that they were stopping anarchists and terrorists from destroying society, religion, and government. The Genevans and the Irish rebels, in turn, saw themselves as advocates of republican virtue, willing to sacrifice themselves for liberty, rights, and the public good. Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans shows how the massacre at Genevan Barracks marked an end to the old Europe of diverse political forms, and the ascendancy of powerful states seeking empire and markets--in many respects the end of enlightenment itself.

Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans: The Genevans and the Irish in Time of Revolution, Whatmore Richard