Southern Europe in the age of revolutions
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. Co...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Princeton Oxford : Princeton University Press,
2023
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| Schlagworte: | Political culture Revolutions Revolutions-History |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (705 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (705 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780691246192 069124619X 9780691246185 0691246181 |