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Author Sotiropoulos, Michalis

Title Liberalism after the Revolution The Intellectual Foundations of the Greek State, C. 1830-1880
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (314 p.)
Series Ideas in Context Ser. ; v.143
Ideas in Context Ser
Contents Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Setting and Its Historians: 'Failed' Liberalism and the Power of Tradition -- Statehood, Civilisation, Jurisdiction -- Questions of Intellectual History -- Liberalism(s) in Context(s) -- Who Were the Jurists? -- Structure of the Book -- Chapter 1 Mind the Legal Gap: The Polizeistaat, 'Enlightened Reforms' and Their Liberal Critics (1832-1844) -- Introduction
Building a Polizeistaat in Southern Europe: 'Enlightened Reforms' in the Nineteenth Century -- Translating the European Legal Ideal -- Challenging Universalism through History, or Introducing Roman Law Scholarship -- Consolidating the Historical School of Law: The 'German' Edward Gibbon -- Intellectual and Political Implications of Legal Discourse -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 'Romanist' Jurisprudence: Liberty, Property and the Virtues of Agrarian Societies (1830s-1850s) -- Introduction -- Romanist Jurisprudence and Its Political Implications in Nineteenth-Century Europe
The Greek Civil Jurists in the 1840s -- Roman Law and the Greek State: The Political/Social Agenda -- Occupation, Sovereignty and Private Property -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 'It's More Than Economics, Stupid': Political Economy and the Limits of 'Industrial' Economics (1840s-1860s) -- Introduction -- Political Economy after Adam Smith -- Political Economy, Civilisation and Manners in South-Eastern Europe -- Public Economy, Industrial Virtues and the Police State -- Ioannis Soutsos and the Limits of Industrial Political Economy -- Economics as the Social and Political Science of Civil Society
Conclusion -- Chapter 4 'Let's Talk about the Nation and the State': Constitutional Liberalism, Sovereignty and Statehood (Late 1840s-1860s) -- Introduction -- Constitutional Liberalism after the French Revolution, or How to Bring the Revolution to a Close -- Early Greek Constitutionalism between Revolution and Absolutism (c. 1830-1844) -- Public Law as the Science of Individual Liberty in a Constitutional Nation-State -- Individual Liberty and National Sovereignty: Constitutional Law and the Domestic Primacy of the State -- Conclusion
Chapter 5 The Law of Nations, Sovereignty and the International Autonomy of the Greek State -- Introduction -- Liberalism and International Law in the Nineteenth Century -- The View from the Periphery -- Sovereignty, Protection and the Greek State -- Greek International Thought and the Shifting Meanings of Protection -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Ideas into Practice: The 'Lawful' Revolution and the Building of a New Constitutional Order (1860s-1870s) -- Introduction -- The 'Lawful' Revolution of 1862: Crisis, Failure of Reforms and the Rise of Political Opposition
Summary This history of nineteenth-century Greek liberalism complicates our understanding of European liberalism and its relationship with the state
Notes Description based upon print version of record
The Constituent Assembly of 1862-1864 (I): National Sovereignty, the King and Individual Rights
Subject Liberalism -- Greece -- History -- 19th century
Liberalism
Politics and government
SUBJECT Greece -- Politics and government -- 1832-1862. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057118
Greece -- Politics and government -- 1863-1913. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057119
Subject Greece
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781009254670
1009254677