Against War and Empire - Geneva, Britian and France in the Eighteenth Century (Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-C) (Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture & History)

by RichardWhatmore (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2012

  $102.20

  As Britain and France became more powerful during the eighteenth century, small states such as Geneva could no longer stand militarily against these commercial monarchies. This book presents an intellectual history of republicans who strove to ensure Geneva's survival as an independent state.