A Laboratory of Liberty; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: The End of the Old Regime in Europe and in the Swiss Eidgenossenschaft; Chapter One On the Ideological Origins of the Revolution in Switzerland; Chapter Two Ambivalent Revolutionaries: The Helvetic Republic in Revolutionary Europe; Part Two: Regeneration of a Constructed Past: Continuities and Discontinuities in the Struggle between Old and New Visions of Switzerland and Europe
Chapter Three The Right to Self-Rule: The Debate Over Legitimacy and the Vaud-Bern RelationshipChapter Four Two Visions of Political Society in Inner Switzerland, 1829-33; Chapter Five Popular Sovereignty in the Züriputsch; Part Three: National Accommodation; Chapter Six Radical Conceptions of the Confederation: Popular Sovereignty and the 1845 Revolution in Vaud; Chapter Seven War, Accommodation and the Making of the Modern Constitutional State; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Based on a tradition of political innovation, Swiss citizens recalibrated their understanding of liberty and republicanism through public political debates, during the revolutionary transformation to a rights-based society. The resulting hybrid political culture enhances our understanding of the international Age of Revolution
