Cover -- Table of Contents -- Timeline of the Sister Republics (1794-1806) -- The political culture of the Sister Republics -- Joris Oddens and Mart Rutjes -- 'The political passions of other nations' -- National choices and the European order in the writings of Germaine de Staël -- Biancamaria Fontana -- 1. The transformation of republicanism -- The transformation of republicanism in the Sister Republics / Andrew Jainchill -- 'Republic' and 'democracy' in Dutch late eighteenth-century revolutionary discourse / Wyger R. E. Velema -- New wine in old wineskins: Republicanism in the Helvetic Republic / Urte Weeber -- 2. Political concepts and languages -- Revolutionary concepts and languages in the Sister Republics of the late 1790s / Pasi Ihalainen -- Useful citizens. Citizenship and democracy in the Batavian Republic, 1795-1801 / Mart Rutjes -- From rights to citizenship to the Helvetian indigénat: Political integration of citizens under the Helvetic Republic / Silvia Arlettaz -- The battle over 'democracy' in Italian political thought during the revolutionary triennio, 1796-1799 / Mauro Lenci -- 3. The invention of democratic parliamentary practices -- Parliamentary practices in the Sister Republics in the light of the French experience / Malcolm Crook -- Making the most of national time: Accountability, transparency, and term limits in the first Dutch Parliament (1796-1797) / Joris Oddens -- The invention of democratic parliamentary practices in the Helvetic Republic: Some remarks / André Holenstein -- The Neapolitan republican experiment of 1799: Legislation, balance of power, and the workings of democracy between theory and practice / Valeria Ferrari -- 4. Press, politics, and public opinion -- Censorship and press liberty in the Sister Republics: Some reflections / Simon Burrows.

1798: A turning point? : Censorship in the Batavian Republic / Erik Jacobs -- Censorship and public opinion: Press and politics in the Helvetic Republic (1798-1803) / Andreas Würgler -- Liberty of press and censorship in the first Cisalpine Republic / Katia Visconti -- 5. The Sister Republics and France -- Small nation, big sisters / Pierre Serna -- The national dimension in the Batavian Revolution: Political discussions, institutions, and constitutions / Annie Jourdan -- The constitutional debate in the Helvetic Republic in 1800-1801: Between French influence and national self-government / Antoine Broussy -- An unwelcome Sister Republic: Re-reading political relations between the Cisalpine Republic and the French Directory / Antonino De Francesco -- Bibliography -- List of contributors -- Notes -- Index.