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Author:   Fabian Persson ,  Munro Price ,  Cinzia Recca
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2023 ed.
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9783031201257

ISBN 10:   3031201256
Pages:   253
Publication Date:   22 March 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1 Resilience: An Introduction.- 2 Two Sisters, Two Towns, Two Kings: Facing War and Still Ruling.- 3 Hungaria Hispanica: Resilient Hungary and Its Integration into the Spanish Habsburg System, 1558–1648.- 4 The Futility of Madame: Marguerite of Lorraine and Elisabeth-Charlotte of the Palatinate in the Service of Their Threatened Homelands.- 5 Francis Taaffe, Third Earl of Carlingford, and the House of Lorraine’s Exile and Restoration, 1670–1704.- 6 Ex vulnere vigor: Emblematic Representations of Resilience in the Royal Festivals in Honour of Pedro II (1648–1707), King of Portugal.- 7 The Eighteenth-Century Crisis in the European Order and Victor Amadeus II as a Model of Resilience for Italian Patriotism and Cultural Unity.- 8 Charles of Bourbon, King of Southern Italy (1734–1759): The Resilience of the Neapolitan ‘Nation’, the Development of Reformism and the Strength of the Reaction.- 9 The European Catholic Dynasties and the Fight Against Smallpox: Bourbon Rulers Between Resilient and Resistant Actions.- 10 Resilience Born of Desperation: Keeping Dynasties Going in Eighteenth-Century Europe.- 11 Resilience and Revolution: The Defence of the Dynastic Interests of Charles IV and Maria Luisa of Parma in the Changing World of the Late Eighteenth Century.- 12 The Resilience and Resistance of the Bourbon Monarchy in the Kingdom of Naples (1799–1802).- 13 ‘We Alone Know’: How King Frederick VI of Denmark and His Regime Coped with Defeat in 1814.- 14 ‘Cholera Adunque è Malattia Nervosa’: The 1836–1837 Cholera Epidemic in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies: Reception, Resilience, and Revolution.

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Fabian Persson after completing his doctoral thesis Servants of Fortune in Lund, Fabian Persson is now a Lecturer and Associate Professor in History at Linnaeus University in Sweden. Two recent books are Women at the Early Modern Swedish Court: Power, Risk, and Opportunity (Amsterdam University Press 2021) and Survival and Revival. Sweden's Court and Monarchy, 1718 to 1930 (Palgrave Macmillan 2020). Munro Price is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Bradford, UK, and specializes in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century French political and diplomatic history. Among his books are Louis XVI and the Comte de Vergennes: Correspondence, 1774-1787 (with John Hardman; Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1998), The Fall of the French Monarchy: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the Baron de Breteuil (London, Macmillan, 2002) and Napoleon: The End of Glory (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014 Cinzia Recca is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Catania, Italy, in the Department of Education. She recently published a book regarding the queenship of Maria Carolina of Naples through the analysis of her diary (The diary of Maria Carolina of Naples,1781-1785.New evidence of Queenship at Court Palgrave McMillan, 2017).

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