EAN: 9783031095061

PALGRAVE STUDIES IN POLITICAL HISTORY CIVIC C...

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.

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