Title Re-imagining democracy in the Mediterranean, 1780-1860 / edited by Joanna Innes and Mark Philp

Edition First edition Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 337 pages) : maps (black and white) Contents Introduction / Joanna Innes, Mark Philip -- Part I: Places. Democracy in Italy: From egalitarian republicanism to plebiscitarian monarchy / Gian Luca Fruci -- Democracy in Spain: An ever-expanding ideal / Javier Fernández-Sebastián, Gonzalo Capellán -- Democracy without people: The rise of democratic liberalism in Portugal / Rui Ramos -- Patris, ethnos, and demos: Representation and political participation in the Greek world / Michalis Sotiropoulos, Antonis Hadjikyriacou -- Sovereignty, governance, and political community in the Ottoman empire and North Africa / James McDougall -- Part II: Themes. Re-imagining the social order / Joanna Innes -- Liberalism and democracy / Mark Philip, Eduardo Posada-Carbó -- Exile, secret societies, and the emergence of an international democratic culture / Florencia Peyrou, Juan Luis Simal -- Religion, revolution, and popular mobilization / Maurizio Isabella -- Armed forces / David A. Bell -- Popular consent and the European order / Joanna Innes -- A guide to further reading -- Participants -- Index Summary Mediterranean states are often thought to have 'democratised' only in the post-war era, as authoritarian regimes were successively overthrown. On its eastern and southern shores, the process is still contested. Re-imagining Democracy looks back to an earlier era, the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and argues it was this era when some modern version of 'democracy' in the region first began. By the 1860s, representative regimes had been established throughout southern Europe, and representation was also the subject of experiment and debate in Ottoman territories. Talk of democracy, its merits and limitations, accompanied much of this experimentation - though there was no agreement as to whether or how it could be given stable political form. Re-imagining Democracy assembles experts in the history of the Mediterranean, who have been exploring these themes collaboratively, to compare and contrast experiences in this region, so that they can be set alongside better-known debates and experiments in North Atlantic states. States in the region all experienced some form of subordination to northern 'great powers'. In this context, their inhabitants had to grapple with broader changes in ideas about state and society while struggling to achieve and maintain meaningful self-rule at the level of the polity, and self-respect at the level of culture. Innes and Philip highlight new research and ideas about a region whose experiences during the 'age of revolutions' are at best patchily known and understood, as well as to expand understanding of the complex and variegated history of democracy as an idea and set of practices Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 2, 2018) Subject Democracy -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- 18th century Democracy -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- 19th century POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General. Democracy SUBJECT Mediterranean Region -- History -- 1789-1815. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98005646 Mediterranean Region -- History -- 1815-1914. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98005647 Mediterranean Region -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98005732 Subject Mediterranean Region Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Innes, Joanna, editor Philp, Mark, editor ISBN 9780192519153 0192519158

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