Publication Date:
2024-05-12
Description:
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.
Keywords:
Political culture
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Political processes
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Age of Revolutions
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Early modern
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Modern Europe
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Modernity
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Local politics
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Political tradition
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Political change
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Transition
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Political activism
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Citizenship
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Continuity
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Revolutionary Era
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Europe and the Americas
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American history
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thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
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thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas
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thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory
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thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
Language:
English
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