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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
R S Alexander |
| ISBN: | 0521801222 9780521801225 |
| OCLC Number: | 52947056 |
| Description: | xi, 385 p. : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | False starts and uncertain beginnings, from the first Restoration (May 1814) to the elections of September 1816 -- Battle commences, from September 1816 to July 1820 -- Self-defeating opposition, from July 1820 to February 1824 -- Back on track, from March 1824 to January 1828 -- Towards victory? January 1828 to July 1830 -- Aftermath: liberal opposition and the July Revolution. |
| Series Title: | New studies in European history. |
| Responsibility: | Robert Alexander. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
"This book examines the politics of the French Revolutionary tradition during the Bourbon Restoration and the early July Monarchy. Robert Alexander argues that progressive political change was achieved by legal grassroots organization and persuasion - rather than the Revolutionary tradition of conspiracy and armed insurrection - and that, moreover, political struggle was not confined to the elite, as common material interests and values linked the electorate to the disenfranchised. Battle between the advocates of national and royal sovereignty constituted the principal dynamic of the period, and fostered significant developments in party formation previously unrecognized by historians. To substantiate his claims, the author analyses relations between the Liberal Opposition, ultraroyalists and the state, concluding that although Liberals triumphed in the 1830 Revolution, thereafter they contributed to the destabilization that produced an immobile Orleanist regime. Nevertheless, they had pioneered a model for change which could successfully adapt pursuit of reform to longing for civil order."--BOOK JACKET.
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