Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions av Maurizio Isabella

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<p><b>An examination of revolutions in the Iberian and Italian peninsulas, Sicily and Greece in the 1820s that reveals a popular constitutional culture in the South</b><br><br>After the turbulent years of the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna¿s attempt to guarantee peace and stability across Europe, a new revolutionary movement emerged in the southern peripheries of the continent. In this groundbreaking study, Maurizio Isabella examines the historical moment in the 1820s when a series of simultaneous uprisings took the quest for constitutional government to Portugal, Spain, the Italian peninsula, Sicily and Greece. Isabella places these events in a broader global revolutionary context and, decentering conventional narratives of the origins of political modernity, reveals the existence of an original popular constitutional culture in southern Europe.<br><br>Isabella looks at the role played by secret societies, elections, petitions, protests and the experience of war as well as