Book description
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 revolutionary movement…
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During the 1820s, Portugal, Spain, Piedmont, Naples, and Greece exploded into revolution.
These events are sorely neglected in the anglosphere, and it is much to Maurizio Isabelle’s credit to rescue them from obscurity and place them in their proper post-Napoleonic context.
His work is comparative history at its finest, and he moves deftly across the Mediterranean, wearing his immense learning lightly. What emerged were military pronunciamentos that became constitutional revolutions which sought to limit the powers of the Southern European monarchies.
The cast of characters, including Napoleonic veterans, adventurers, and Greek pirates, is worthy of a Dumas novel. With magisterial…
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