Michalis Sotiropoulos

Liberalism After the Revolution

The Intellectual Foundations of the Greek State, C. 1830-1880

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The book will be of interest to those interested in European intellectual history and modern Greek history; in the history of liberalism and the afterlives of Enlightenment; in law and the transition from empires to nation-states"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 585g
• ISBN-13: 9781009254656
• ISBN-10: 1009254650
• Artikelnr.: 64052350

Autorenporträt

Michalis Sotiropoulos is currently the 1821 Fellow in Modern Greek Studies at the British School at Athens. He is a historian of modern Europe specialising in the intellectual history of the Mediterranean and the Greek world in the long nineteenth century. His publications include studies of the Greek Revolution of 1821, on law and the formation of states, and on the historiography on the Age of Revolutions.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Mind the legal gap (1832-44): the Polizeistaat,
'Enlightened reforms' and their liberal critics; 2. 'Romanist'
jurisprudence: liberty, property and the merits of an agrarian society
(1830s-1850s); 3. 'It's more than economics, stupid': political economy and
the limits of 'industrial' economics (1840s-1860s); 4. Constitutional
liberalism: rights, sovereignty and statehood (late 1840s-1860s; 5. The law
of nations, sovereignty, and the international autonomy of the Greek state;
6. Ideas into practice: the 'lawful' revolution and the building of a new
constitutional order (1860s-1870s); Conclusion. Placing Greek liberalism
within a Europe-wide perspective.