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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.
List 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-Noël 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 Régime: The case of Württemberg. 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. Bård Frydenlund
Ch.16 Madame Adélaïde, 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 Glenthøj
Part 6 Re-Imagining Restoration
Ch.20 Spanish Restoration Revisited: Was it possible a moderate representative government in 19th Century Spain? Gonzalo Butrón 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
About the author
Michael Broers is Professor of Western European History at the University of Oxford, UK. He is the author of several books about revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe, including the two-volume biography Napoleon (2014 and 2018); Napoleon's Other War: Bandits, Rebels and their Pursuers in the Age of Revolutions (2010); and The Napoleonic Empire in Italy, 1796-1814 (2005), winner of the Grand Prix Napoléon prize, 2006.
Summary
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.
Foreword
This volume looks and the key questions and controversies of Napoleonic history.
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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.
