Table of Contents

Introduction. Ambrogio A. Caiani
Part 1 New Order New Diplomacy?
Ch.1 Neutrality, Restoration and Restraint: The Congress system at work after 1815. Maartje Abbenhuis
Ch.2 Russia, the Grand Alliance, and the War Scare of 1821-22. Elise Wirtschafter
Ch.3 The Council of Ambassadors and Restoration France - balancing power with justice. Beatrice de Graaf
Ch.4 The Art of Diplomacy: Jean-Baptiste Isabey at the Congress of Vienna. Daniel Harkett
Ch.5 Managing Multi-Polarity 1814-1830: the foundations of the Concert of Europe. Richard Langhorne
Ch.6 Cosmopolitan conspirators: the conspiracy against the Holy Alliance during the French intervention in Spain. Jean-Noël Tardy
Part 2 Charters and Constitutional Monarchy
Ch.7 Louis XVIII and the Charter of 4 June 1814: Time, Memory and Oblivion. Emmanuel de Waresquiel
Ch.8 Constitutional Monarchism in Post-Napoleonic Europe. Markus J. Prutsch
Ch.9 The Many Faces of Liberal Constitutionalism in the Age of Reaction: The Cases of Scandinavia and South German. Morten Nordhagen Ottosen
Ch.10 Royal opposition against the Ancien Régime: The case of Württemberg. Georg Eckert,
Part 3 Composite Monarchy Restored
Ch.11 The Austrian Empire as Composite Monarchy after 1815. Karin Schneider
Ch.12 A monarchical regime based on republican antecedents. The constitution of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. Ido de Haan
Ch.13 The Savoyard Monarchy and the Restoration. Enrico Genta
Part 4 Dynasty Re-Invented
Ch.14 Heroic Heirs. Monarchical Succession and the Role of the Military in Restoration Spain and France. Heidi Mehrkens & Richard Meyer Forsting
Ch.15 Southern interpretations on Northern political culture - Bernadotte as king of Norway and Sweden. Bård Frydenlund
Ch.16 Madame Adélaïde, female political power, and the July monarchy. Munro Price
Part 5 New States, New Borders
Ch.17 New borders, invented identities: Norwegian officers during Danish, Swedish and corps identity construction processes, 1814-1830. Roald Berg
Ch.18 The construction of the boundaries in Restoration Italy. A comparative picture. Marco Meriggi
Ch.19 Pan-Scandinavism and the threshold principle? Rasmus Glenthøj
Part 6 Re-Imagining Restoration
Ch.20 Spanish Restoration Revisited: Was it possible a moderate representative government in 19th Century Spain? Gonzalo Butrón Prida
Ch.21 Poles and their next "saviour". Alexander I and the Kingdom of Poland. Jaroslaw Czubaty
Ch.22 Peace through legislation: law codes and social control in Restoration Italy. Marco Bellabarba
Conclusion
Ch.23 Metternich-Kissinger: Interpreting the Restoration. Luigi Mascilli Migliorini

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This volume looks and the key questions and controversies of Napoleonic history.

About the Author

Michael Broers is Professor of Western European History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. His book, The Napoleonic Empire in Italy, 1796-1814 (2005) won the Prix Napoleon of the foundation Napoleon. Ambrogio A. Caiani is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Kent.

Reviews

One of the book's strengths is that it highlights modern scholarship of the period, on which these essays are based. This study will be of greatest interest to specialists and graduate students. Summing Up: Recommended.
*CHOICE*

This is an excellent collection, and the editors deserve praise ... One of the great pluses of the collection is its scope: the way it integrates European states and regions that have so often been left out of books too narrowly focused on France and, perhaps, Italy and Spain ... These volumes deserve to be in every library concerned with teaching and research on nineteenth-century Europe.
*Journal of European Studies*

In short, the editors have admirably engaged with the Restorations ... In sum, there is much promise to A History of the European Restorations, and its impressive cast of contributors have made important interventions.
*European History Quarterly*

This is a magnificent and exciting collection, bringing together a remarkable international range of scholars who cover both well-established topics from unfamiliar angles, and introduce areas on which there is little available in English. Any respectable historical library will need a copy: it will be widely consulted for years.
*Professor William Doyle, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Bristol*

This impressive collection will assume its place as an important survey of current thinking on the politics of the Restoration era in both international and domestic contexts. Scholars and students alike will consult the essays with profit. The contributors provide new and nuanced assessments of actors and policies rather than recurring to older dichotomies of radical and reactionary. Some contributions trace themes for specific regions across the whole period, others focus on specific episodes and explore the broader implications through close readings. Having both types of essays adds to the insights of the volume.
*Brian Vick, Emory University, author of The Congress of Vienna: Power and Politics after Napoleon*

These two volumes provide a valuable introduction to the exciting new research which is transforming our view of Europe between 1815 and 1848. Unified by the important and persuasive notion of multiple “Restorations”, they will be invaluable for anyone who teaches or studies this important period in European history.
*Professor Hamish Scott, Jesus College, Oxford*

This exciting two-volume collection provides a wealth of material on the European dimension of the Restoration as Europe was both re-made and made anew in the aftermath of the Napoleonic period. The range is truly impressive, covering both the states usually well-treated, notably France, but also others, for example the Netherlands, usually underplayed. These volumes deserve to be in every library concerned with teaching and research on nineteenth century Europe.
*Jeremy Black, Historian*