The Holy Alliance
liberalism and the politics of federation
$64.00
- Hardcover
328 pages
- Release Date
3 September 2024
Summary
The Holy Alliance: A Liberal Dream?
A major new account of the post-Napoleonic Holy Alliance and the promise it held for liberals.
The Holy Alliance is now most familiar as a label for conspiratorial reaction. In this book, Isaac Nakhimovsky reveals the Enlightenment origins of this post-Napoleonic initiative, explaining why it was embraced at first by many contemporary liberals as the birth of a federal Europe and the dawning of a peaceful and prosperous age of global progr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691195193 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691195196 |
| Author: | Isaac Nakhimovsky |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 328 |
| Release Date: | 3 September 2024 |
| Weight: | 650g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
”[The Holy Alliance] fully inhabits the feverish world of the postwar 1810s and 1820s.”—James Stafford, London Review of Books”[A] stimulating volume… . Recommended.” * Choice *
About The Author
Isaac Nakhimovsky
Isaac Nakhimovsky is associate professor of history and humanities at Yale University. He is the author of The Closed Commercial State: Perpetual Peace and Commercial Society from Rousseau to Fichte (Princeton).
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