A History of the European Restorations

Governments, States and Monarchy

Michael Broers, Ambrogio A. Caiani, Michael Broers, Ambrogio A. Caiani

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781350271876
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781786726520
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Note on Translations
• List of Contributors
• List of Plates
• Introduction
• Part 1 New Order, New Diplomacy?
• 1 Neutrality, Restoration and Restraint: The Congress System at Work after 1815
• 2 Russia, the General Alliance and the Russo-Ottoman War Scare of 1821–2
• 3 An Imperial Affair: The Allied Council of Ambassadors and the Occupation of France, 1815–18
• 4 Restoring International Order: Managing Multi-Polarity 1814–30 and the Foundation of the Concert of Europe
• 5 The Art of Diplomacy: Jean-Baptiste Isabey at the Congress of Vienna
• 6 Cosmopolitan Conspirators: The Conspiracy against the Holy Alliance during the French Intervention in Spain
• Part 2 Charters and Constitutional Monarchy
• 7 Louis XVIII and the Charter of 4 June 1814: Time, Memory and Oblivion
• 8 Constitutional Monarchism in Post-Napoleonic Europe
• 9 The Practical Politics of Restoration Constitutionalism: The Cases of Scandinavia and South Germany
• 10 Royal Opposition against the Ancien Régime: The Case of Württemberg
• Part 3 Composite Monarchy Restored
• 11 The Austrian Empire as a Composite Monarchy after 1815
• 12 A Monarchical Regime based on Republican Antecedents: The Constitution of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands
• 13 Ruling over the Ruling Class: Doctrine and Practice of Government in the Kingdom of Sardinia
• Part 4 Dynasty Re-Invented
• 14 Heroic Heirs: Monarchical Succession and the Role of the Military in Restoration Spain and France
• 15 Southern Influences on Nordic Political Culture: Bernadotte as King of Norway and Sweden
• 16 Madame Adélaïde, Female Political Power and the July Monarchy
• Part 5 New States, New Borders
• 17 ‘… to be Norwegians, not Swedish’: Identity Adaptations in the Norwegian Officers Corps, 1814–45
• 18 The Construction of the Boundaries in Restoration Italy: A Comparative Perspective
• 19 When Size Mattered: The Threshold Principle and the Existential Fear of Being too Small
• Part 6 Re-Imagining Restoration
• 20 Was Moderate Representative Government Possible in Spain (1814–32)?
• 21 The Poles and their next ‘Saviour’: Alexander I and the Kingdom of Poland
• 22 Peace through Legislation: Law Codes and Social Control in Restoration Italy
• Conclusion
• 23 Metternich-Kissinger: Interpreting the Restoration
• Index
• Plates
• Copyright