Overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Demonstrates that older practices were crucial for political activism and the implementation of radical change
- Highlights the significance of locality in shaping people’s understanding of the nature of politics
- Places equal emphasis on either side of the 1800 boundary, a period of mass political transition and rupture
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Political History (PSPH)
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About this book
This open access book explores the role of continuity in political processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions. It argues that the changes that took place in the years around 1800 were enabled by different types of continuities across Europe and in the Americas. With historians of modernity tending to emphasise the rise of the new, scholarship has leaned towards an assumption that existing modes of action, thought and practice simply became extinct, irrelevant or at least subordinate to new modes. In contrast, this collection examines continuities between early modern and modern political cultures and organization in Europe and the Americas. Shifting the focus from political modernization, the authors examine the continued relevance of older, often local, practices in (post)revolutionary politics. By doing so,they aim to highlight the role of local political traditions and practices in forging and enabling political change. The book argues that while political change was in fact at the centre of both the old and new polities that emerged in the Age of Revolutions, it coexisted with, and was indeed enabled by, continuities at other levels.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Residual Powers
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The Power of Practice
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Experiencing and Domesticating Change
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Judith Pollmann is Professor of Early Modern History at the Institute for History at Leiden University, the Netherlands.
Henk te Velde is Professor of Modern History at the Institute for History at Leiden University, the Netherlands.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Civic Continuities in an Age of Revolutionary Change, c.1750–1850
Book Subtitle: Europe and the Americas
Editors: Judith Pollmann, Henk te Velde
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Political History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09504-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09503-0Published: 05 December 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09506-1Published: 05 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-09504-7Published: 04 December 2022
Series ISSN: 2946-5176
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5184
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 339
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: European History, History of the Americas, World History, Global and Transnational History, Political History, History, general