The Citizenship Experiment: Contesting the Limits of Civic Equality and Participation in the Age of Revolutions

R. Koekkoek

doi:10.1163/9789004416451

The Citizenship Experiment: Contesting the Limits of Civic Equality and Participation in the Age of Revolutions

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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 to abandon the notion of a shared, Atlantic, revolutionary vision of citizenship. Instead, they forged conceptions of citizenship that were limited to national contexts, restricted categories of voters, and ‘advanced’ stages of civilization. Weaving together the convergence and divergence of an Atlantic revolutionary discourse, debates on citizenship, and the intellectual repercussions of the Terror and the Haitian Revolution, Koekkoek offers a fresh perspective on the revolutionary 1790s as a turning point in the history of citizenship.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Leiden/Boston
Publisher	Brill
Number of pages	304
Volume	15
ISBN (Electronic)	978-90-04-41645-1
ISBN (Print)	978-90-04-22570-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004416451
Publication status	Published - 2019

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Name	Studies in the History of Political Thought

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