Documents - German Responses to the Revolutions in America and France

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11.	Adolph Freiherr von Knigge, "The New State" (1792) In the following article, Adolf von Knigge (1752-96), a prolific Enlightenment publicist, ridicules....
12.	Friedrich Cotta, "On the Good Life the People of the Rhine and the Mosel Can Now Have" (November 30, 1792) Here, Friedrich Cotta appeals to the material self-interest of the “common people” among the German population of the Mainz Republic, stressing the advantages of the democratic regime, which, among....
13.	Friedrich Cotta, On the Constitution in France (ca. 1793) Friedrich Cotta, a supporter of the pro-French revolutionary German republic in Mainz, describes the accomplishments of the French Revolution from the perspective of 1793, that is, after the proclamation....
14.	"Guidelines for the Administration of Censorship and for the Behavior of the Censors" (1810) Enlightenment liberalism argued for a free marketplace of ideas. Eighteenth-century German governments took long strides in this direction, but religious counter-currents and later the French Revolution....
15.	Konrad Engelbert Oelsner, "What May Be Hoped for from Freedom" (1794) Konrad Engelbert Oelsner, a well-educated merchant’s son from Prussian Silesia, gravitated to Paris in 1790 and became an important reporter for the liberal German press on the French Revolution,....
16.	"Declaration of Sovereignty of the [German] People Between the [Rivers] Meuse, Rhine, and Mosel" (November 13, 1797) The numbers of German partisans of the French Revolution – German Jacobins – are difficult to establish, but in the early- and mid-1790s they gained strength, especially in west and south Germany.....
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