The Age of the Democratic Revolution. A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800
518 Chapter XXI shopkeepers and innkeepers, grocers and printers’ devils, organized in clubs, and especially strong in the towns ...
The Batavian Republic 519 There was also the matter of the public debt of the province of Holland. For two centuries Holland had ...
520 Chapter XXI ous was the revolt of certain Amsterdam cannoneers, a National Guard unit which, on May 10, invaded and menaced ...
The Batavian Republic 521 now widely thought that the famous “communism” of Babeuf was limited to a small circle within his move ...
522 Chapter XXI Its most sweeping single innovation was the disestablishment of the Reformed Church. Catholics, Jews, and minori ...
The Batavian Republic 523 known that French émigrés, royalists, Orange emissaries, spies, and British agents were everywhere act ...
524 Chapter XXI Dutch historians seem to differ in judging what followed. For Pieter Geyl, the French interference was very high ...
The Batavian Republic 525 tablishment of the Reformed religion. It provided for a bicameral legislature and for a collegiate exe ...
526 Chapter XXI that efficiency was not such a government’s strongest point. Democrats fell out with one another. “True” democra ...
The Batavian Republic 527 After Daendels’ coup d’état, matters quieted down. There was very little punish- ment or retribution, ...
528 Chapter XXI Nor were they pleased when another Dutch relief ship, sent from Java, was cap- tured by a stratagem in which a B ...
The Batavian Republic 529 vian, or British, from interfering with them in matters of land or labor.^45 Probably there was more s ...
CHAPTER XXII THE FRENCH DIRECTORY: MIRAGE OF THE MODERATES The French government is now concerned with a problem of interest to ...
Mirage of the Moderates 531 questions asked on the Right. What if the regime, however decorous and constitu- tional, violated th ...
532 Chapter XXII certain amount of political hooliganism, led especially by young men of good fam- ily, the jeunesse dorée. Thei ...
Mirage of the Moderates 533 universal manhood suffrage and elements of direct democracy that had character- ized the earlier con ...
534 Chapter XXII former members of the Convention. The members of the post- Robespierrist Con- vention saw no other way of assur ...
Mirage of the Moderates 535 five incumbents ever agreed even within itself, and the Directors were often also at odds with the t ...
536 Chapter XXII except the British and Austrians with whom France remained at war, were free to travel in the new republic. An ...
Mirage of the Moderates 537 Spain in the next year even signed an alliance with the Republic. Prussia embarked on a policy of n ...
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