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Looking at a series of Swiss political debates, this book offers a case study of a revolutionary transformation to a rights-based society and political culture. Based on a tradition of political innovation and experimentation, Swiss citizens recalibrated their understanding of liberty and republicanism from 1750 to 1848. The resulting hybrid political culture centered around republican ideas, changing understandings of liberty and self-rule. Drawing from the public political debates in three characteristic cantons, A Laboratory of Liberty places the Swiss transformation into a European context. Current trends in Revolutionary studies focus on the revolution in its global context and this book demonstrates that the Swiss case enhances our understanding of the debates over the nature of liberty in the transatlantic world during the Age of Revolution.

Political culture --- Liberty --- Republicanism --- Self-determination, National --- Revolutions --- Social change --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Insurrections --- Rebellions --- Revolts --- Revolutionary wars --- History --- Political science --- Political violence --- War --- Government, Resistance to --- National self-determination --- Nationalism --- Nation-state --- Nationalities, Principle of --- Sovereignty --- Culture --- Civil liberty --- Emancipation --- Freedom --- Liberation --- Personal liberty --- Democracy --- Natural law --- Equality --- Libertarianism --- Social control --- Political aspects --- History. --- Switzerland --- CH (Switzerland) --- Confederatio Helvetica --- Confédération de huit cantons --- Confédération suisse --- Confederazione svizzera --- Confederaziun svizra --- Eidgenossenschaft (Swiss Confederation) --- Everlasting League --- Four Forest Cantons --- Helvetia --- Helvetic Confederation --- Lega elvetica --- Schweiz --- Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft --- Schweizerische Eidtgenossenschaft --- Shṿaits --- Shveĭt︠s︡arii︠a︡ --- Shveytsʻaria --- Suisse --- Suisu --- Suiza --- Sŭwisŭ --- Sveitsi --- Sviṭzaralaiṇḍa --- Svizra --- Svizzera --- Swiss Confederation --- Swisserland --- Vier Waldstätte --- Zvicra --- Zwitserland --- スイス --- Helvetic Republic --- Politics and government --- Social conditions.