Citizens and Citoyens: Republicans and Liberals in America and France

by Mark Hulliung

In a tour de force of comparative intellectual history, Mark Hulliung sharply challenges conventional wisdom about the political nature of the "sister republics," America and France.

Hulliung argues that the standard American account of a continuous Jacobin republican tradition--"illiberal to the core"--is fatally misleading. In reality it was the nineteenth-century French liberals who undermined the cause of liberalism, and it was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674009274
• ISBN13: 9780674009271
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"