Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions (eBook)

Maurizio Isabella (Autor)

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2023
704 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-24619-2 (ISBN)

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An examination of revolutions in the Iberian and Italian peninsulas, Sicily and Greece in the 1820s that reveals a popular constitutional culture in the SouthAfter the turbulent years of the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna's attempt to guarantee peace and stability across Europe, a new revolutionary movement emerged in the southern peripheries of the continent. In this groundbreaking study, Maurizio Isabella examines the historical moment in the 1820s when a series of simultaneous uprisings took the quest for constitutional government to Portugal, Spain, the Italian peninsula, Sicily and Greece. Isabella places these events in a broader global revolutionary context and, decentering conventional narratives of the origins of political modernity, reveals the existence of an original popular constitutional culture in southern Europe.Isabella looks at the role played by secret societies, elections, petitions, protests and the experience of war as well as the circulation of information and individuals across seas and borders in politicising new sectors of society. By studying the mobilisation of the army, the clergy, artisans, rural communities and urban populations in favour of or against the revolutions, he shows that the uprisings in the South-although their ultimate fate was determined by the intervention of more powerful foreign countries-enjoyed considerable popular support in ideologically divided societies and led to the introduction of constitutions. Isabella argues that these movements informed the political life of Portugal and Spain for many decades and helped to forge a long-lasting revolutionary tradition in the Italian peninsula. The liberalism that emerged as a popular political force across southern Europe, he contends, was distinct from French and British varieties.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.5.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 26 b/w illus. 1 map.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • Age of Revolution • Ancien Régime • aristocracy • Armatoloi • Atlantic Revolutions • Atlantic World • ayuntamiento • Before the Revolution • British Empire • Calabria • Cambridge University Press • carbonari • Carlism • Catania • Cisalpine Republic • Civil War • Colonialism • Concert of Europe • Congress of Troppau • Constitution • Constitutional Army • Constitutionalism • Constitutionalist (UK) • Continental Europe • Continental System • counter-revolutionary • coup d'état • despotism • Dos de Mayo Uprising • Duchy of Genoa • Esquilache Riots • feudalism • First Carlist War • Freemasonry • French army • French intervention in Mexico • French invasion of Russia • French Revolution • Greek war of independence • guerrilla warfare • hostility • Il Risorgimento (newspaper) • immigration to Europe • imperialism • Inquisition • Institution • Insurgency • Invasion of Naples (1806) • Italian unification • Kingdom of the Two Sicilies • Liberalism • Manifesto • May Revolution • Miguel I of Portugal • military occupation • Monarchies in Europe • Napoleon • Napoleonic Era • napoleonic wars • Nationalization • Neapolitan Republic (1647) • New Laws • Ottoman Empire • Ottoman wars in Europe • Oxford University Press • Patriotism • Peloponnese • Peninsular War • political radicalism • political revolution • Politics • Politique • popular sovereignty • proclamation • Pronunciamiento • provisional government • Public sphere • Radicalism (historical) • regime change • Religion • Revolution • revolutionary movement • Revolutionary propaganda • revolutions of 1848 • Romanticism • Sicilian revolt • social revolution • Southern Europe • southern Italy • Sovereignty • Suffrage • Supporter • Trienio liberal • ultra-royalist • war • war economy • warfare • Wars of national liberation • Ypsilantis
• ISBN-10: 0-691-24619-X / 069124619X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-24619-2 / 9780691246192