Republics, Nations and Tribes

Covers a key time of transition in European history, 1795-1848, linking revolutionary Paris to the trial of the Enlightenment. The book explores the development of ideas about the citizen, the nation and freedom, in particular the drift from republican/classical to Germanic/Romantic thought.

Martin Thom

"...a splendid instance of the fusion of erudition and intellectual excitement ... Martin Thom has explored with exceptional subtlety the supplanting of old myths of identity and liberty by new theories of community in the age of the French Revolution. The depth of his analysis is matched by its geocultural breadth." - Roy Porter "Martin Thom boldly sketches a new view of the connection between the trauma of the French Revolution and the stirrings of Romanticism. A major work of scholarship and intellectual synthesis." - Gareth Stedman-Jones