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A laboratory of liberty the transformation of political culture in republican Switzerland, 1750-1848 / by Lerner, Marc H.

Table of Contents: “…Regeneration of a constructed past : continuities and discontinuities in the struggle between old and new visions of Switzerland and Europe -- The right to self-rule : the debate over legitimacy and the Vaud-Bern relationship -- Two visions of political society in inner Switzerland, 1829-33 -- Popular sovereignty in the Zuriputsch -- pt. 3. …”
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Sensibility and the American Revolution / by Knott, Sarah, 1972-

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Reading London : Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-Century Literature / by Bond, Erik

Table of Contents: “…Archives of conduct : John Gay on London's street level -- Novel conduct : imagined authority in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Bow Street -- Pope, Westminster Bridge, and other imaginative "things of use" -- Interchapter : the print-saturated city -- Agitation and dramatic criticism in Boswell's London Journal -- Frances Burney's "interior monitor" and the self-governing woman.…”
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The Fair sex white women and racial patriarchy in the early American Republic / by Schloesser, Pauline E.

Table of Contents: “…Race, gender, and woman citizenship in the American founding -- Toward a theory of racial patriarchy -- The ideology of the "fair sex" -- The philosopher queen and the U.S. constitution: Mercy Otis Warren as a reluctant signatory -- From revolution to racial patriarchy: the political pragmatism of Abigail Adams -- Gleaning a self between the lines: Judith Sargent Murray.…”
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Reading London : Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-Century Literature / by Bond, Erik

Table of Contents: “…Archives of conduct : John Gay on London's street level -- Novel conduct : imagined authority in Henry Fielding's Tom Jones and Bow Street -- Pope, Westminster Bridge, and other imaginative "things of use" -- Interchapter : the print-saturated city -- Agitation and dramatic criticism in Boswell's London Journal -- Frances Burney's "interior monitor" and the self-governing woman.…”
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Invisible sovereign : imagining public opinion from the Revolution to Reconstruction / by Schmeller, Mark G., 1967-

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