Michalis Sotiropoulos

Liberalism after the Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

This history of nineteenth-century Greek liberalism and the ways in which it engaged in reforms in the Greek state after independence from the Ottomans challenges our understanding of European liberalism and its relationship with the state.

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Produktdetails

• Ideas in Context
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 311
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9781009254687
• ISBN-10: 1009254685
• Artikelnr.: 70679032

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.