The Citizenship Experiment
Contesting the Limits of Civic Equality and Participation in the Age of Revolutions
On October, 17th Brill published The Citizenship Experiment. Contesting the Limits of Civic Equality and Participation in the Age of Revolutions by Dr René Koekkoek. In this book, Koekkoek explores the fate of citizenship ideals in Age of Revolutions.
While in the early 1790s citizenship ideals in the Atlantic world converged, the twin shocks of the Haitian Revolution and the French Revolutionary Terror led the American, French, and Dutch publics to abandon the notion of a shared, Atlantic, revolutionary vision of citizenship. Instead, they forged conceptions of citizenship that were limited to national contexts, restricted categories of voters, and ‘advanced’ stages of civilization.
Weaving together the convergence and divergence of an Atlantic revolutionary discourse, debates on citizenship, and the intellectual repercussions of the Terror and the Haitian Revolution, Koekkoek offers a fresh perspective on the revolutionary 1790s as a turning point in the history of citizenship.
René Koekkoek, Ph.D. (2016) is Assistant Professor in Political History at Utrecht University. His research focuses on the history of political thought and culture in the early-modern Atlantic world. This is his first book.
- Title: The Citizenship Experiment. Contesting the Limits of Civic Equality and Participation in the Age of Revolutions
- Author: René Koekkoek
- Publisher: Brill
- ISBN: 9789004225701