Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions /

Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions / / Maurizio Isabella.

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 r...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
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Isabella, Maurizio,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (704 p.) :; 26 b/w illus. 1 map.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Map of southern Europe
  • Introduction. Southern Europe and the Making of a Global Revolutionary South
  • What constitution did revolutionaries fight for? A few introductory remarks
  • The making of a constitutional order and its conflicts: plan of the book
  • Part I. War, Army and Revolution
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Conspiracy and Military Careers in the Napoleonic Wars
  • Secret societies and the planning of revolutions
  • From fighting in the Napoleonic wars to declaring the revolution
  • Chapter 2 Pronunciamientos and the Military Origins of the Revolutions
  • After the Napoleonic wars: economic crisis and an impossible military demobilisation
  • Communicating the revolutionary script: nation, army and constitution
  • The army and popular mobilisation
  • In the name of what nation?
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter 3 Civil Wars: Armies, Guerrilla Warfare and Mobilisation in the Rural World
  • Portugal and political change through military pronunciamientos
  • Fighting in the name of a prisoner king: counterrevolution in Spain
  • Civil war as a war of independence: Sicily against Naples
  • Civil war as a crisis of the Ottoman order: the Greek revolution
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter 4 National Wars of Liberation and the End of the Revolutionary Experiences
  • Introduction
  • The failure of the revolutionary script in Naples, Piedmont and Spain
  • Greece and the nationalisation of the anti-Ottoman conflict
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter 5 Crossing the Mediterranean: Volunteers, Mercenaries, Refugees
  • Introduction: Palermo as a Mediterranean revolutionary hub
  • Sir Richard Church: bridging empire, counterrevolution and revolution
  • Emmanuele Scordili and the Greek diasporas
  • Andrea Mangiaruva: volunteer for freedom and economic migrant?
  • Conclusions
  • Part II. Experiencing the Constitution Citizenship, Communities and Territories
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 6 Re-conceiving Territories: The Revolutions as Territorial Crises
  • Introduction
  • Constitutional devolution and federal royalism in Spain
  • Resisting centralisation: Genoa, Sicily and provincial freedoms
  • Emancipating local councils; creating a new state: Portugal and Greece
  • Chapter 7 Electing Parliamentary Assemblies
  • Chapter 8 Petitioning in the Name of the Constitution
  • Conclusions: political participation and local autonomies after the 1820s
  • Part III. Building Consensus, Practising Protest: The Revolutionary Public Sphere and Its Enemies
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 9 Shaping Public Opinion
  • Communicating the revolution, educating citizens: information and sociability
  • Invasions and conspiracies: rumours and the international imagination
  • Chapter 10 Taking Control of Public Space
  • Revolutionary ceremonies as rituals of concord
  • Rituals of contestation: singing the revolution
  • Secret societies: from clandestine opposition to public advocacy
  • Protest and corporate interests in Madrid, Palermo and Hydra: artisans and sailors
  • Chapter 11 A Counterrevolutionary Public Sphere? The Popular Culture of Absolutism
  • Conclusions: from revolutionary practices to public memory
  • Part IV. Citizens or the Faithful? Religion and the Foundation of a New Political Order
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 12 Christianity against Despotism
  • Religious nations, intolerant nations?
  • Reforming churches: priests as educators
  • Chapter 13 A Revolution within the Church
  • Begrudging endorsement? Church hierarchies and the revolutions
  • A divided clergy
  • Preaching in favour of or against the new order
  • The politics of miracles
  • Conclusions
  • Epilogue. Unfinished Business: The Age of Revolutions in Southern Europe after the 1820s
  • Yannis Macriyannis and the betrayal of the Greek revolution
  • Bernardo de Sá Nogueira (Viscount and Marquis of Sá da Bandeira) and the search for political stability in Portugal
  • Guglielmo Pepe: transnational fame and the endurance of Neapolitan patriotism
  • Antonio Alcalá Galiano and the transition to moderate liberalism
  • Conclusion
  • Chronology
  • Glossary of Foreign Terms
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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