Timeline of the Sister Republics (1794-1806)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Timeline of the Sister Republics (1794-1806) 9
4. The political culture of the Sister Republics 17
5. ‘The political passions of other nations’. National choices and the European order in the writings of Germaine de Staël 33
6. 1. The transformation of republicanism
7. The transformation of republicanism in the Sister Republics 43
8. ‘Republic’ and ‘democracy’ in Dutch late eighteenth-century revolutionary discourse 49
9. New wine in old wineskins. Republicanism in the Helvetic Republic 57
10. 2. Political concepts and languages
11. Revolutionary concepts and languages in the Sister Republics of the late 1790s 67
12. Useful citizens. Citizenship and democracy in the Batavian Republic, 1795-1801 73
13. From rights to citizenship to the Helvetian indigénat. Political integration of citizens under the Helvetic Republic 85
14. The battle over ‘democracy’ in Italian political thought during the revolutionary triennio, 1796-1799 97
15. 3. The invention of democratic parliamentary practices
16. Parliamentary practices in the Sister Republics in the light of the French experience 109
17. Making the most of national time. Accountability, transparency, and term limits in the first Dutch Parliament (1796-1797) 115
18. The invention of democratic parliamentary practices in the Helvetic Republic. Some remarks 127
19. The Neapolitan republican experiment of 1799. Legislation, balance of power, and the workings of democracy between theory and practice 135
20. 4. Press, politics, and public opinion
21. Censorship and press liberty in the Sister Republics. Some reflections 143
22. 1798: A turning point? Censorship in the Batavian Republic 151
23. Censorship and public opinion. Press and politics in the Helvetic Republic (1798-1803) 159
24. Liberty of press and censorship in the first Cisalpine Republic 171
25. 5. The Sister Republics and France
26. Small nation, big sisters 183
27. The national dimension in the Batavian Revolution. Political discussions, institutions, and constitutions 187
28. The constitutional debate in the Helvetic Republic in 1800-1801. Between French influence and national self-government 201
29. An unwelcome Sister Republic. Re-reading political relations between the Cisalpine Republic and the French Directory 211
30. Bibliography 219
31. List of contributors 245
32. Notes 249
33. Index 319