Mike Rapport
Biographic Data
| ID | 713319 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mike Rapport |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mike |
| FAMILY NAME | Rapport |
| SIGNATURE | RAPPORT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Human Rights during the 1848 Revolutions
This chapter argues that the 1848 Revolutions can profitably be understood through the prism of arguments over rights. It highlights a series of contests between those who championed a “thin” conception of individual civil and political rights and those who defended a variety of “thicker” understandings: whether of rights as belonging to collectives, especially national minorities; as protecting cultural, linguistic, or gender identities and diff…
The Cambridge History of Rights
The age of Enlightenment and revolutions produced some of our best-known declarations of rights, but they did not create the idea of rights. Writers during this age did such a good job at declaring rights that many historians and politicians later believed that they invented them. The fourth volume of The Cambridge History of Rights shows that the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are better understood as a time of transformation, extending rig…
Jeremy D. Popkin, A New World Begins
The Age of Atlantic Revolution
Les visiteurs étrangers et l’espace urbain
S'intéressant aux concepts interprétatifs d'« espace », cet article explore comment quatre visiteurs étrangers à Paris dans les années 1790 - Helen Maria Williams, Nikolaï Karamzine, Heinrich Meister et Friedrich Meyer - ont enregistré leurs impressions sur les changements que la Révolution française a apportés à la ville. Alors que les révolutionnaires eux-mêmes ont adapté et embelli les bâtiments et les espaces physiques existants pour servir l…
Liberty or Death
The history of the French Revolution is often written from a Parisian perspective, with the capital acting and the rest of France either following in its wake with different degrees of grumbling, or resisting. Yet for Peter McPhee this is too one-sided an approach. ‘The Revolution’, he argues (p. xii), ‘is best understood as a process of negotiation and confrontation between government in Paris and people across the country’. Paris was, McPhee ac…
Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being
The Festival of the Supreme Being on 8 June 1794—or 20 Prairial Year 2—has habitually been regarded as something of a sick, even hypocritical joke: a sterile, officially imposed celebration of the deity and the immortality of the soul taking place just as the ‘Terror’ was reaching its height. Historians have emphasized the dark irony that the guillotine was given the day off from its bloody work as the government subjected French citizens to care…
Revisiting Prussia’s Wars against Napoleon
Revisiting Prussia’s Wars against Napoleon: history, culture and memory." Social History, 42(2), pp. 284–285
Marc H. Lerner. A Laboratory of Liberty
Marc H. Lerner begins the conclusion to his excellent monograph with a glance at Switzerland's recent past. In the mid-1990s, the Swiss government, parliament, and public engaged in a fiery debate over a commemorative year, namely 1998. The question was, which anniversary would be celebrated? On the one hand, the modern, federal, and democratic Swiss state is usually held to have been born in 1848. The constitution of that year was the result of …
A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe, 1789-1914
When writing a history of Europe, the very first challenge facing an author is the choice of approach: should the story be told as a narrative or should the material be broken down into themes? Should national differences be emphasised in a country-by-country discussion, with some linking passages for comparison, or should there be a more explicitly European focus, emphasising the similarities from the Atlantic to the Urals (or wherever ‘Europe’ …
Unnaturally French
Peter Sahlins' latest book is impressive and meticulously researched. The study of foreigners and citizenship in France has been burgeoning over the past two decades and Sahlins makes a major contribution here. He argues that, in the later eighteenth century, the ideas and practices of French nationality law mutated from the absolutist conceptions developed in the seventeenth century into a recognisably modern, political notion of citizenship. Fr…
Fighting Napoleon
"Fighting Napoleon: Guerrillas, Bandits and Adventurers in Spain 1808-1814, by Charles J. Esdaile." Canadian Journal of History, 41(1), pp. 129–130
Deux nations malheureusement rivales
Après le déclenchement de la Révolution française, divers groupes, au sein des révolutionnaires français et du mouvement radical britannique, tentèrent de nouer des liens politiques et personnels qui mettraient fin à la vieille rivalité entre les deux peuples, les rapprochant sur la base des droits de l'homme. Parallèlement, une tension existait entre, d'un côté, la dimension universaliste de ces idéaux et, de l'autre, l'idée du citoyen et de la …
The Politics of Religion in Napoleonic Italy
1University of Stirling The Politics of Religion in Napoleonic Italy: The War Against God, 1801–1814 MichaelBroers London and New YorkRoutledge 2002xvi + 238£55 0 415 26670 X
A Languishing Branch of the Old Tree of Feudalism
First paragraph: The truth is, I know of no country in which strangers are worse treated, with regard to their essential concerns. If a foreigner dies in France, the king seizes all his effects, even though his heir should be upon the spot and this tyranny is called the droit d'aubaine, founded at first upon the supposition, that all the estate of foreigners residing in France was acquired in that kingdom, and that, therefore, it would be unjust …
Robespierre and the Universal Rights of Man, 1789-1794
First paragraph: On 15 May 1790, the Constituent Assembly opened a debate on the question as to whether the king or the legislature would have the right to make war or peace in the new Constitution. While the long-term workings of the machinery of state were at stake, there was also the dark prospect of war with Britain owing to a distant dispute between the Spanish navy and British merchantmen. The family ties of the Bourbon dynasty threatened t…
The Age of Atlantic Revolution
A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe, 1789-1914
When writing a history of Europe, the very first challenge facing an author is the choice of approach: should the story be told as a narrative or should the material be broken down into themes? Should national differences be emphasised in a country-by-country discussion, with some linking passages for comparison, or should there be a more explicitly European focus, emphasising the similarities from the Atlantic to the Urals (or wherever ‘Europe’ …
Deux nations malheureusement rivales
Après le déclenchement de la Révolution française, divers groupes, au sein des révolutionnaires français et du mouvement radical britannique, tentèrent de nouer des liens politiques et personnels qui mettraient fin à la vieille rivalité entre les deux peuples, les rapprochant sur la base des droits de l'homme. Parallèlement, une tension existait entre, d'un côté, la dimension universaliste de ces idéaux et, de l'autre, l'idée du citoyen et de la …
Robespierre and the Universal Rights of Man, 1789-1794
First paragraph: On 15 May 1790, the Constituent Assembly opened a debate on the question as to whether the king or the legislature would have the right to make war or peace in the new Constitution. While the long-term workings of the machinery of state were at stake, there was also the dark prospect of war with Britain owing to a distant dispute between the Spanish navy and British merchantmen. The family ties of the Bourbon dynasty threatened t…
A Languishing Branch of the Old Tree of Feudalism
First paragraph: The truth is, I know of no country in which strangers are worse treated, with regard to their essential concerns. If a foreigner dies in France, the king seizes all his effects, even though his heir should be upon the spot and this tyranny is called the droit d'aubaine, founded at first upon the supposition, that all the estate of foreigners residing in France was acquired in that kingdom, and that, therefore, it would be unjust …
The Politics of Religion in Napoleonic Italy
1University of Stirling The Politics of Religion in Napoleonic Italy: The War Against God, 1801–1814 MichaelBroers London and New YorkRoutledge 2002xvi + 238£55 0 415 26670 X
Deux nations malheureusement rivales
Après le déclenchement de la Révolution française, divers groupes, au sein des révolutionnaires français et du mouvement radical britannique, tentèrent de nouer des liens politiques et personnels qui mettraient fin à la vieille rivalité entre les deux peuples, les rapprochant sur la base des droits de l'homme. Parallèlement, une tension existait entre, d'un côté, la dimension universaliste de ces idéaux et, de l'autre, l'idée du citoyen et de la …
Fighting Napoleon
"Fighting Napoleon: Guerrillas, Bandits and Adventurers in Spain 1808-1814, by Charles J. Esdaile." Canadian Journal of History, 41(1), pp. 129–130
Unnaturally French
Peter Sahlins' latest book is impressive and meticulously researched. The study of foreigners and citizenship in France has been burgeoning over the past two decades and Sahlins makes a major contribution here. He argues that, in the later eighteenth century, the ideas and practices of French nationality law mutated from the absolutist conceptions developed in the seventeenth century into a recognisably modern, political notion of citizenship. Fr…
A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe, 1789-1914
When writing a history of Europe, the very first challenge facing an author is the choice of approach: should the story be told as a narrative or should the material be broken down into themes? Should national differences be emphasised in a country-by-country discussion, with some linking passages for comparison, or should there be a more explicitly European focus, emphasising the similarities from the Atlantic to the Urals (or wherever ‘Europe’ …
Marc H. Lerner. A Laboratory of Liberty
Marc H. Lerner begins the conclusion to his excellent monograph with a glance at Switzerland's recent past. In the mid-1990s, the Swiss government, parliament, and public engaged in a fiery debate over a commemorative year, namely 1998. The question was, which anniversary would be celebrated? On the one hand, the modern, federal, and democratic Swiss state is usually held to have been born in 1848. The constitution of that year was the result of …
Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being
The Festival of the Supreme Being on 8 June 1794—or 20 Prairial Year 2—has habitually been regarded as something of a sick, even hypocritical joke: a sterile, officially imposed celebration of the deity and the immortality of the soul taking place just as the ‘Terror’ was reaching its height. Historians have emphasized the dark irony that the guillotine was given the day off from its bloody work as the government subjected French citizens to care…
Revisiting Prussia’s Wars against Napoleon
Revisiting Prussia’s Wars against Napoleon: history, culture and memory." Social History, 42(2), pp. 284–285
Liberty or Death
The history of the French Revolution is often written from a Parisian perspective, with the capital acting and the rest of France either following in its wake with different degrees of grumbling, or resisting. Yet for Peter McPhee this is too one-sided an approach. ‘The Revolution’, he argues (p. xii), ‘is best understood as a process of negotiation and confrontation between government in Paris and people across the country’. Paris was, McPhee ac…
Les visiteurs étrangers et l’espace urbain
S'intéressant aux concepts interprétatifs d'« espace », cet article explore comment quatre visiteurs étrangers à Paris dans les années 1790 - Helen Maria Williams, Nikolaï Karamzine, Heinrich Meister et Friedrich Meyer - ont enregistré leurs impressions sur les changements que la Révolution française a apportés à la ville. Alors que les révolutionnaires eux-mêmes ont adapté et embelli les bâtiments et les espaces physiques existants pour servir l…
Human Rights during the 1848 Revolutions
This chapter argues that the 1848 Revolutions can profitably be understood through the prism of arguments over rights. It highlights a series of contests between those who championed a “thin” conception of individual civil and political rights and those who defended a variety of “thicker” understandings: whether of rights as belonging to collectives, especially national minorities; as protecting cultural, linguistic, or gender identities and diff…
The Cambridge History of Rights
The age of Enlightenment and revolutions produced some of our best-known declarations of rights, but they did not create the idea of rights. Writers during this age did such a good job at declaring rights that many historians and politicians later believed that they invented them. The fourth volume of The Cambridge History of Rights shows that the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are better understood as a time of transformation, extending rig…
Jeremy D. Popkin, A New World Begins
The Age of Atlantic Revolution
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