Overview

Europe’s Restorations were characterised by their evolving dialectics. The chapters in this first volume address the key questions and controversies of Napoleonic history from a national and international perspective. From the re-ordering of the European world through the tools of intervention, occupation and diplomacy, to the creation of new constitutional monarchies across France, Scandinavia and Germany the volume outlines the processes that realigned national priorities and the accompanying dynamics of social and political identity. In a structure that makes sense of what Luigi Mascilli Migliorini describes as the ‘fiendishly complex’ process of reconstructing order in post-Napoleonic Europe, this collection of essays brings together experts in the field to set a new precedent for transnational research frameworks in the study of the European Restorations.

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Author:   Professor Michael Broers (University of Oxford, UK) ,  Ambrogio A. Caiani (University of Kent, UK) ,  Stephen Bann
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9781350253063

ISBN 10:   1350253065
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   26 August 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction. Ambrogio A. Caiani Part 1 New Order New Diplomacy? Ch.1 Neutrality, Restoration and Restraint: The Congress system at work after 1815. Maartje Abbenhuis Ch.2 Russia, the Grand Alliance, and the War Scare of 1821-22. Elise Wirtschafter Ch.3 The Council of Ambassadors and Restoration France - balancing power with justice. Beatrice de Graaf Ch.4 The Art of Diplomacy: Jean-Baptiste Isabey at the Congress of Vienna. Daniel Harkett Ch.5 Managing Multi-Polarity 1814-1830: the foundations of the Concert of Europe. Richard Langhorne Ch.6 Cosmopolitan conspirators: the conspiracy against the Holy Alliance during the French intervention in Spain. Jean-Noel Tardy Part 2 Charters and Constitutional Monarchy Ch.7 Louis XVIII and the Charter of 4 June 1814: Time, Memory and Oblivion. Emmanuel de Waresquiel Ch.8 Constitutional Monarchism in Post-Napoleonic Europe. Markus J. Prutsch Ch.9 The Many Faces of Liberal Constitutionalism in the Age of Reaction: The Cases of Scandinavia and South German. Morten Nordhagen Ottosen Ch.10 Royal opposition against the Ancien Regime: The case of Wurttemberg. Georg Eckert, Part 3 Composite Monarchy Restored Ch.11 The Austrian Empire as Composite Monarchy after 1815. Karin Schneider Ch.12 A monarchical regime based on republican antecedents. The constitution of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. Ido de Haan Ch.13 The Savoyard Monarchy and the Restoration. Enrico Genta Part 4 Dynasty Re-Invented Ch.14 Heroic Heirs. Monarchical Succession and the Role of the Military in Restoration Spain and France. Heidi Mehrkens & Richard Meyer Forsting Ch.15 Southern interpretations on Northern political culture - Bernadotte as king of Norway and Sweden. Bard Frydenlund Ch.16 Madame Adelaide, female political power, and the July monarchy. Munro Price Part 5 New States, New Borders Ch.17 New borders, invented identities: Norwegian officers during Danish, Swedish and corps identity construction processes, 1814-1830. Roald Berg Ch.18 The construction of the boundaries in Restoration Italy. A comparative picture. Marco Meriggi Ch.19 Pan-Scandinavism and the threshold principle? Rasmus Glenthoj Part 6 Re-Imagining Restoration Ch.20 Spanish Restoration Revisited: Was it possible a moderate representative government in 19th Century Spain? Gonzalo Butron Prida Ch.21 Poles and their next saviour . Alexander I and the Kingdom of Poland. Jaroslaw Czubaty Ch.22 Peace through legislation: law codes and social control in Restoration Italy. Marco Bellabarba Conclusion Ch.23 Metternich-Kissinger: Interpreting the Restoration. Luigi Mascilli Migliorini

Reviews

This is an excellent collection, and the editors deserve praise ... One of the great pluses of the collection is its scope: the way it integrates European states and regions that have so often been left out of books too narrowly focused on France and, perhaps, Italy and Spain ... These volumes deserve to be in every library concerned with teaching and research on nineteenth-century Europe. * Journal of European Studies * This is a magnificent and exciting collection, bringing together a remarkable international range of scholars who cover both well-established topics from unfamiliar angles, and introduce areas on which there is little available in English. Any respectable historical library will need a copy: it will be widely consulted for years. * Professor William Doyle, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Bristol * This impressive collection will assume its place as an important survey of current thinking on the politics of the Restoration era in both international and domestic contexts. Scholars and students alike will consult the essays with profit. The contributors provide new and nuanced assessments of actors and policies rather than recurring to older dichotomies of radical and reactionary. Some contributions trace themes for specific regions across the whole period, others focus on specific episodes and explore the broader implications through close readings. Having both types of essays adds to the insights of the volume. * Brian Vick, Emory University, author of The Congress of Vienna: Power and Politics after Napoleon * These two volumes provide a valuable introduction to the exciting new research which is transforming our view of Europe between 1815 and 1848. Unified by the important and persuasive notion of multiple Restorations , they will be invaluable for anyone who teaches or studies this important period in European history. * Professor Hamish Scott, Jesus College, Oxford * This exciting two-volume collection provides a wealth of material on the European dimension of the Restoration as Europe was both re-made and made anew in the aftermath of the Napoleonic period. The range is truly impressive, covering both the states usually well-treated, notably France, but also others, for example the Netherlands, usually underplayed. These volumes deserve to be in every library concerned with teaching and research on nineteenth century Europe. * Jeremy Black, Historian *

One of the book's strengths is that it highlights modern scholarship of the period, on which these essays are based. This study will be of greatest interest to specialists and graduate students. Summing Up: Recommended. * CHOICE * This is a magnificent and exciting collection, bringing together a remarkable international range of scholars who cover both well-established topics from unfamiliar angles, and introduce areas on which there is little available in English. Any respectable historical library will need a copy: it will be widely consulted for years. * Professor William Doyle, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Bristol * This impressive collection will assume its place as an important survey of current thinking on the politics of the Restoration era in both international and domestic contexts. Scholars and students alike will consult the essays with profit. The contributors provide new and nuanced assessments of actors and policies rather than recurring to older dichotomies of radical and reactionary. Some contributions trace themes for specific regions across the whole period, others focus on specific episodes and explore the broader implications through close readings. Having both types of essays adds to the insights of the volume. * Brian Vick, Emory University, author of The Congress of Vienna: Power and Politics after Napoleon * These two volumes provide a valuable introduction to the exciting new research which is transforming our view of Europe between 1815 and 1848. Unified by the important and persuasive notion of multiple Restorations , they will be invaluable for anyone who teaches or studies this important period in European history. * Professor Hamish Scott, Jesus College, Oxford * This exciting two-volume collection provides a wealth of material on the European dimension of the Restoration as Europe was both re-made and made anew in the aftermath of the Napoleonic period. The range is truly impressive, covering both the states usually well-treated, notably France, but also others, for example the Netherlands, usually underplayed. These volumes deserve to be in every library concerned with teaching and research on nineteenth century Europe. * Jeremy Black, Historian *

This is a magnificent and exciting collection, bringing together a remarkable international range of scholars who cover both well-established topics from unfamiliar angles, and introduce areas on which there is little available in English. Any respectable historical library will need a copy: it will be widely consulted for years. --Professor William Doyle, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Bristol This impressive collection will assume its place as an important survey of current thinking on the politics of the Restoration era in both international and domestic contexts. Scholars and students alike will consult the essays with profit. The contributors provide new and nuanced assessments of actors and policies rather than recurring to older dichotomies of radical and reactionary. Some contributions trace themes for specific regions across the whole period, others focus on specific episodes and explore the broader implications through close readings. Having both types of essays adds to the insights of the volume. --Brian Vick, Emory University, author of The Congress of Vienna: Power and Politics after Napoleon These two volumes provide a valuable introduction to the exciting new research which is transforming our view of Europe between 1815 and 1848. Unified by the important and persuasive notion of multiple Restorations , they will be invaluable for anyone who teaches or studies this important period in European history. --Professor Hamish Scott, Jesus College, Oxford This exciting two-volume collection provides a wealth of material on the European dimension of the Restoration as Europe was both re-made and made anew in the aftermath of the Napoleonic period. The range is truly impressive, covering both the states usually well-treated, notably France, but also others, for example the Netherlands, usually underplayed. These volumes deserve to be in every library concerned with teaching and research on nineteenth century Europe. --Jeremy Black, Historian

Author Information

Michael Broers is Professor of Western European History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. His book, The Napoleonic Empire in Italy, 1796-1814 (2005) won the Prix Napoleon of the foundation Napoleon. Ambrogio A. Caiani is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Kent.

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