Brendan Simms on the ‘Armed Missionaries’ of Freedom
“One way or the other, Robespierre’s warning that Europe would not welcome ‘armed missionaries’ was vindicated: the ‘reason’, ‘fraternity’, ‘equality’ …
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Brendan Simms on the first stirrings of ‘Liberal Interventionism’
“The international turbulence of the late 1760s and 1770s strengthened interventionist sentiment in Europe. In the 1770s no fewer than …
