The Helvetic Republic

Switzerland's Revolutionary Crucible, 1798-1803

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William Ua Cellaig

Verlag:

Dark Road Publishing

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35637200

EAN: 9798235284135

Erhältlich:

Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Di, 25.08.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 47.75

Beschreibung

In the spring of 1798, a French army crossed into Switzerland and shattered a political order five centuries in the making. Within six catastrophic weeks, the Old Swiss Confederacy - a patchwork of sovereign cantons, subject territories, and patrician oligarchies - collapsed entirely. What rose in its place was an extraordinary and doomed experiment: the Helvetic Republic, a centralized nation built on borrowed French institutions, a constitution stripped of its own promised ratification, and a population divided between Radicals, Moderates, and Federalists who could never agree on where legitimate power belonged. Four coups. A brutal suppression at Nidwalden. Peasants burning tax archives in Vaud. A currency no one could afford to mint. A government fleeing before its own citizens. And finally, Napoleon himself forced to mediate a settlement between the extremes his own invasion had unleashed. This is the story of Switzerland's lost revolutionary republic - five turbulent years that nineteenth-century historians dismissed as foreign imposition, but that in fact built the hidden foundations of the modern Swiss state: its citizenship, its multilingual identity, its communal law, its very idea of federal balance. William Ua Cellaig traces, chapter by chapter, how a republic that failed at everything it set out to do succeeded, almost by accident, at building something better.

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Sprache

Englisch

Autor

William Ua Cellaig

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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