Editorial: Yale University Press
Colección: The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
Número de páginas: 392 págs. 15.5 x 23.4 cm
Fecha de edición: 09-01-2024
EAN: 9780300246926
ISBN: 978-0-300-24692-6
Precio (sin IVA): 40,12 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 41,72 €
In the years preceding the American and French revolutions, state secrecy came to be seen as despotic—an instrument of monarchy. But as revolutionaries sought to fashion representative government, they faced a dilemma. In a context where gaining public trust seemed to demand transparency, was secrecy ever legitimate? Whether in Philadelphia or Paris, establishing popular sovereignty required navigating between an ideological imperative to eradicate secrets from the state and a practical need to limit transparency in government. The fight over this—dividing revolutionaries and vexing founders—would determine the nature of the world’s first representative democracies.