Post-Revolutionary Europe: 1815-1856

ISBN-13: 9780333948064 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 320 str.

Martyn Lyons

Opis

Martyn Lyons re-assesses European history between the fall of Napoleon and the Crimean War. Refusing to characterize the period as a "Restoration." Lyons presents the struggle of the European monarchies for credibility in the wake of conflicts which had shattered the mystique of kingship. Lyons stresses the invented aspects of emerging nationalism, as well as the important process of rebuilding a political culture after 1815, and the democratic Revolutions of 1848.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations.- List of Maps and Tables.- Abbreviations.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Rethinking Post-revolutionary Europe.- Endings and Beginnings: Europe in 1815.- Re-inventing the Monarchy: France, 1814-1830.- Conservatism and Political Repression, 1815-1830.- The Underground Republic: Opposition Movements 1815-48.- The Fragility of Nationalism.- The Revolutions of 1830.- The Rise of Public Opinion.- The 'Juste Mileu' and Gathering Unrest, 1830-48.- The Jews: The Dilemmas of Emancipation.- The City.- The Peasant World.- The Crisis of the Artisans.- Bourgeois Culture and the Domestic Ideology.- The Revolutions of 1848.- The Crimean War and Beyond.- Notes.- Recommended Further Reading.- Index.

O autorze

MARTYN LYONS is Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He has published widely on French revolutionary and Napoleonic history. His previous publications include Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution (1994) and Readers and Society in Nineteenth-Century France (2001), both also published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Blurb

Martyn Lyons offers a fresh interpretation of European history in the half-century following the fall of Napoleon. Instead of seeing the period in traditional terms of Restoration and Reaction, this new account emphasizes the problems of remembering and forgetting the recent revolutionary and Napoleonic past, and of either incorporating or rejecting its legacy.

Post-Revolutionary Europe:
- makes interesting comparisons and contrasts between the fall of the French Empire in 1815 and the collapse of the Soviet Empire in 1989-91
- examines the new forms of popular participation in political life which developed between the 1830 and 1848 Revolutions, as a broad public sphere of action was created
- offers a series of thematic chapters which discuss key topics such as peasants and artisans, the bourgeois family, nationalism, the growth of cities, and European Jewry
- covers a wide geographical context, from Britain to the Balkans and from Portugal to Russia.
Illustrated throughout, this clear and engaging text is essential reading for all those with an interest in this important period of European history.