The Alternative to Perpetual Peace
Britain, Ireland and the Case for Union in Friedrich Gentz's Historisches Journal , 1799–1800
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12740407 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jean Stafford (0000-0002-0144-9200, University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 63-91 |
| Publication date | 2015-11-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Intellectual History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-2443 • E-ISSN: 1479-2451 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1479244315000475 |
| OpenAlex | W2311698885 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 38 |
The British–Irish Union of 1801 remains a significant and controversial moment in the histories of both countries, but understandings of its genesis are restricted inscope. This article seeks to place the Union in a new historical context: the crisis of the European states system that accompanied the French Revolution. It considers the position held by the Union in the critique of Kant's famous essay on “Perpetual Peace” (1795) advanced by one of his most influential students, the publicist and state official Friedrich Gentz (1764–1832). Gentz argued that the consolidation of the British state offered a model for the regeneration of European society. Only unitary forms of sovereign authority could exercise the responsible political agency required for the restoration of peace in the wake of the Revolution. The decline of small states and composite polities supported the durable civil liberty and commercial development necessary to mankind's moral development in history
Agency (philosophy · Archaeology · Consolidation (business · Context (archaeology · Economic history · Irish · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Unitary state · American Constitutional Law and Politics · European Political History Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence
The Formation of national States in Western Europe
The Impact of Napoleon
Repenser l’ordre européen (1795-1802)
Before the Deluge
The Invention of the Modern Republic
The Transformation Of European Politics 1763 –1848
David Hume's Political Economy
The Sinews of Power
Hume in der deutschen aufklarung. Umrisse einer rezeptionsgeschichte
Language and empire, c.1800
The Politics of Prussian Neutrality 1795-1805
Conceiving the Republic of Mankind
Imperial reform and visions of a European constitution in Germany around 1800
An Incorporating Union? British Politicians and Ireland 1800-1830
A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England, 1783-1846
Etienne Dumont, the British Constitution, and the French Revolution
Jean-Louis Delolme and the Political Science of the English Empire
The old European States-system
Friedrich Gentz's Translation of Burke's Reflections
The Closed Commercial State
The Construction of a European World-View in the Revolutionary-Napoleonic Years
Political Theory of Empire and Imperialism
The Impact of Napoleon
A Turn to Empire
Ireland's Long Nineteenth Century of Union
Languages of Conflict and the Northern Ireland Troubles
Enlightenment against Empire
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |