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In the aftermath of the French Revolution, freedom came to have a host of meanings. This volume examines these contested visions of freedom both inside and outside of revolutionary situations in the nineteenth century, as each author explores and interprets the development of nineteenth-century political culture in a particular national context. The common focus is the struggle in various countries to define, advance, or delimit freedom after the French Revolution. The introductory chapter evokes the problematic relationships between reform and revolution and introduces themes that appear in subsequent chapters, though each chapter is a free-standing interpretive essay. Among the issues addressed are the growth of the public sphere and associational movements; battles over constitutionalism, parliamentary institutions, and the franchise; the role of the state in inhibiting or expanding citizenship and the rule of law; the resort to violence by parties of order or parties of change; and the intrusion of new social questions or ethnic conflicts into the political arena.

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In the aftermath of the French Revolution, "freedom" came to have a host of meanings. This volume examines these contested visions of freedom both inside and outside of revolutionary situations in the nineteenth century, as each author explores and interprets the development of nineteenth-century political culture in a particular national context. The common focus is the struggle in various countries to define, advance, or delimit freedom after the French Revolution. The introductory chapter evokes the problematic relationships between reform and revolution and introduces themes that appear in subsequent chapters, though each chapter is a free-standing interpretive essay. Among the issues addressed are the growth of the public sphere and associational movements; battles over constitutionalism, parliamentary institutions, and the franchise; the role of the state in inhibiting or expanding citizenship and the rule of law; the resort to violence by parties of order or parties of change; and the intrusion of new social questions or ethnic conflicts into the political arena.

Author Biography

Isser Woloch is Professor of History at Columbia University. He is the author, most recently, of The New Regime: Transformations of the French Civic Order, 1789-1820s.

Table of Contents

Introduction: the ambiguities of revolution in the nineteenth-century Isser Woloch; 1. European visions of the French revolution Sergio Luzzatto; 2. The constitution of 1812 and the Spanish road to parliamentary monarchy Richard Herr; 3. Revolution, independence, and liberty in Latin America Richard J. Walter; 4. Popular constitutionalism and revolution in England and Ireland Iain McCalman; 5. Contested freedoms in the French revolutions, 1830-1871 John M. Merriman; 6. The paradoxes of Italy's nineteenth-century political culture Raymond Grew; 7. The German states and the Euroipean revolution James J. Sheehan; 8. Lawful revolutions and the many meanings of freedom in the Habsburg monarchy Istvan Deak; 9. Revolution and the theater of public life in Imperial Russia Laura Engelstein; Abbreviations; Notes; Index.

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In the aftermath of the French Revolution, "freedom" came to have a host of meanings. This volume examines these contested visions of freedom both inside and outside of revolutionary situations in the nineteenth century, as each author explores and interprets the development of nineteenth-century political culture in a particular national context. The common focus is the struggle in various countries to define, advance, or delimit freedom after the French Revolution. The introductory chapter evokes the problematic relationships between reform and revolution and introduces themes that appear in subsequent chapters, though each chapter is a free-standing interpretive essay. Among the issues addressed are the growth of the public sphere and associational movements; battles over constitutionalism, parliamentary institutions, and the franchise; the role of the state in inhibiting or expanding citizenship and the rule of law; the resort to violence by parties of order or parties of change; and the intrusion of new social questions or ethnic conflicts into the political arena.

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