Narratives of Dictatorship in the Age of Revolution - Emotions, Power and Legitimacy in the Atlantic Space

Starting from the assumption that the age of revolution was one of dictators too, this book aims at exploring how this new type of rulers whose authority was no longer based on dynastic succession or religious consecration sought legitimacy.

List of contents

1. Introduction: A vessel named ‘Dictator’ / 2. The dictator: palingenesis and contested rule / 3. Hope and order / 4. Fear and terror / 5. Memory and nostalgia / 6. Epilogue: 1848/49 or ‘The spirits that one summoned’ / Bibliography

About the author

Moisés Prieto is adjunct researcher and lecturer at the University of Bern as well as former research fellow at the Prussian Privy State Archives in Berlin. His research embraces the history of dictatorship in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, media history, visual history, history of migration and the history of emotions.

Summary

Starting from the assumption that the age of revolution was one of dictators too, this book aims at exploring how this new type of rulers whose authority was no longer based on dynastic succession or religious consecration sought legitimacy.

Product details

• Authors: Moises Prieto, Moisés Prieto, Moises (Humboldt University of Berlin Prieto
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2022
• EAN: 9780367186340
• ISBN: 978-0-367-18634-0
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, Nationalism, HISTORY / Europe / France, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, HISTORY / Latin America / General, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, History and Archaeology, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, HISTORY / Europe / Spain