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- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume ii
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I France
- Part II Western, Central, and Eastern Europe
- 11 Switzerland: Local Agency and French Intervention: The Helvetic Republic
- 12 Revolution at Geneva: Genevans in Revolution
- 13 The Modernity of the Dutch Revolution: Ideas, Action, Permeation
- 14 The United States of Belgium
- 15 Revolution in England? Abolitionism
- 16 The Irish Rebellion of 1798
- 17 Italy: Revolution and Counterrevolution (1789–1799)
- 18 Germany and the French Revolution
- 19 Reform and Resistance: Hungary and the Habsburg Monarchy, 1780–1795
- 20 Poland–Lithuania in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: Dilemmas of Liberty
- 21 Transnational Perspectives: The French Revolution, the Sister Republics, and the United States
- Part III Haiti
- Index
21 - Transnational Perspectives: The French Revolution, the Sister Republics, and the United States
from Part II - Western, Central, and Eastern Europe
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 October 2023
- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume ii
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I France
- Part II Western, Central, and Eastern Europe
- 11 Switzerland: Local Agency and French Intervention: The Helvetic Republic
- 12 Revolution at Geneva: Genevans in Revolution
- 13 The Modernity of the Dutch Revolution: Ideas, Action, Permeation
- 14 The United States of Belgium
- 15 Revolution in England? Abolitionism
- 16 The Irish Rebellion of 1798
- 17 Italy: Revolution and Counterrevolution (1789–1799)
- 18 Germany and the French Revolution
- 19 Reform and Resistance: Hungary and the Habsburg Monarchy, 1780–1795
- 20 Poland–Lithuania in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: Dilemmas of Liberty
- 21 Transnational Perspectives: The French Revolution, the Sister Republics, and the United States
- Part III Haiti
- Index
Summary
Describes the phenomenon of “Sister Republics” and shows that it was limited until the first Italian campaign of Napoleon Bonaparte. To better understand the interactions between the “mother” Republic and her “daughters,” this chapter studies their constitutions and bills of rights, which reveal that some of them were shaped by native patriots, while others were forced upon them by the French government. In a way, the “Sister” Republics became a “constitutional laboratory” for France. All these changes did not happen without chaos and violence. In the “sister” republics too, force and coercion were necessary to implement the new regimes and to silent the factional struggles and the counter-revolution. Thanks to the French army, however, revolutionary terror did not win the day at least until 1799. In spite of all these problems, the young republics experimented new institutions and improvements for the time being and for the future. But, by a strange irony of fate, the only true “sister” republic was the republic of the United States, that is the only one which was not really influenced by the French Revolution, and which was to become a model in the following revolutionary waves.
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- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions , pp. 540 - 560Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023