Terrorists, anarchists, and republicans: The Genevans and the Irish in time of revolution: by Richard Whatmore, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019, 512 pp., $39.95 / £34.00 (hardback) ISBN 9780691168777.

Richard Whatmore's new book tells a remarkable and largely unknown story about New Geneva, a refuge for exiled Genevan republicans and self-styled democrats - condemned as terrorists and anarchists - near Waterford in Ireland in the late eighteenth century. New Geneva was shortly abandoned because of the instability of British politics, and more precisely the failure of Britain to provide the funds the Genevan exiles demanded. After Shelburne's failure to patronise Smith, he was attracted to the dissenting minister Richard Price, who was interested in reforming not only Britain's commercial system but also its "corrupt" politics. [Extracted from the article]