Four Horsemen - Riding to Liberty in Post-Napoleonic Europe

The Four Horsemen narrates the history of revolution in Spain, Naples, Greece, and Russia in the 1820s, connecting the social movements and activities on the ground, in the inimitable voice of a renowned historian.

List of contents

• Editors' Preface


• Preface


• I. Before the Barricades Went Up


• II. Rafael Del Riego: The Ride through Andalusia


• III. Guglielmo Pepe: Marching into Naples


• IV. Alexandros Yspilanti: Across the River Pruth


• V. Sergei Muraviev-Apostol: Into the Steppe


• VI. The Torn Cloth of Memory


• Abbreviations


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Richard Stites was Professor of History at Georgetown University. A groundbreaking historian who opened up new territory with landmark works on the Russian women's movement and on Russian and Soviet mass culture, he was the author of Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution and Serfdom, Society, and the Arts in Imperial Russia: The Pleasure and the Power and the co-author of A History of Russia: Peoples, Legends, Events, Forces.

Summary

The Four Horsemen narrates the history of revolution in Spain, Naples, Greece, and Russia in the 1820s, connecting the social movements and activities on the ground, in the inimitable voice of a renowned historian.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Stites, Richard (Formerly Professor of History and Stites, Stites Richard
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.09.2020
• EAN: 9780197533581
• ISBN: 978-0-19-753358-1
• No. of pages: 456
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; European History, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Science, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Environmental policy & protocols, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Environmental policy and protocols, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions