Civic Continuities in an Age of Revolutionary Change, C.1750-1850: Europe and the Americas Pollmann Judith
Civic Continuities in an Age of Revolutionary Change, C.1750-1850: Europe and the Americas Pollmann Judith This open access book explores the role of continuity in political processes and practices…
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Civic Continuities in an Age of Revolutionary Change, C.1750-1850: Europe and the Americas Pollmann Judith
This open access book explores the role of continuity in political processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions. 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. 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.
Shifting the focus from political modernization, the authors examine the continued relevance of older, often local, practices in (post)revolutionary politics. In contrast, this collection examines continuities between early modern and modern political cultures and organization in Europe and the Americas. By doing so, they aim to highlight the role of local political traditions and