Southern Europe in the age of revolutions
An examination of revolutions in the Iberian and Italian peninsulas, Sicily, and Greece in the 1820s that reveals a popular constitutional culture in the South After the turbulent years of the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna’s attempt to guarantee peace and stability across Europe, a new...
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Princeton ; Oxford
Princeton University Press
2023, ©2023
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Map of Southern Europe
- Introduction: Southern Europe and the making of a global revolutionary South
- Conspiracy and military careers in the Napoleonic Wars
- Pronunciamentos and the military origins of the revolutions
- Civil wars: armies, guerrilla warfare and mobilization in the rural world
- National wars of liberation and the end of the revolutionary experiences
- Crossing the Mediterranean: volunteers, mercenaries, refugees
- Re-conceiving territories: the revolutions as territorial crises
- Electing parliamentary assemblies
- Petitioning in the name of the constitution
- Shaping public opinion
- Taking control of public space
- A counterrevolutionary public sphere? The popular culture of absolutism
- Christianity against despotism
- A revolution within the Church
- Epilogue: Unfinished business. The Age of Revolutions after the 1820s
- Chronology
- Bibliography
- Index