The Intellectual Origins Of The Belgian Revolution

Author : Stefaan Marteel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319894263

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The Intellectual Origins of the Belgian Revolution by Stefaan Marteel Pdf

This book explores the political ideas of the Belgian Revolution of 1830, which led to the break-up of the Restoration state of the ‘united’ Kingdom of the Netherlands. It uncovers the origins of liberalism and political Catholicism in the Southern Netherlands in the wake of the French Revolution, and traces the development of political language in the context of the tensions between the Northern and Southern part of the united Netherlands. It shows how differences in ‘Dutch’ and ‘Belgian’ political and intellectual history resulted in different understandings of essential political concepts such as ‘sovereignty’ and ‘balance of powers’, as well as of the nature of the constitutional order of 1815. Finally, it traces the emergence of Belgian nationalism within the discourse of opposition against the government. Stefaan Marteel therefore provides a fresh perspective on the intellectual background of the rise of the nation-state in the nineteenth century.

Author : Brecht Deseure,Raf Geenens,Stefan Sottiaux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000375039

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Sovereignty, Civic Participation, and Constitutional Law by Brecht Deseure,Raf Geenens,Stefan Sottiaux Pdf

This book brings recent insights about sovereignty and citizen participation in the Belgian Constitution to scholars in the fields of law, philosophy, history, and politics. Throughout the Western world, there are increasing calls for greater citizen participation. Referendums, citizen councils, and other forms of direct democracy are considered necessary antidotes to a growing hostility towards traditional party politics. This book focuses on the Belgian debate, where the introduction of participatory politics has stalled because of an ambiguity in the Constitution. Scholars and judges generally claim that the Belgian Constitution gives ultimate power to the nation, which can only speak through representation in parliament. In light of this, direct democracy would be an unconstitutional power grab by the current generation of citizens. This book critically investigates this received interpretation of the Constitution and, by reaching back to the debates among Belgium’s 1831 founding fathers, concludes that it is untenable. The spirit, if not the text, of the Belgian Constitution allows for more popular participation than present-day jurisprudence admits. This book is the first to make recent debates in this field accessible to international scholars. It provides a rare source of information on Belgium’s 1831 Constitution, which was in its time seen as modern constitutionalism’s greatest triumph and which became a model for countless other constitutions. Yet the questions it asks reverberate far beyond Belgium. Combining new insights from law, philosophy, history, and politics, this book is a showcase for continental constitutional theory. It will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers in constitutional law, political and legal philosophy, and legal history.

Author : Simon John
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783277636

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Medievalism in Nineteenth-Century Belgium by Simon John Pdf

Offers new insights into the political and modern uses of public monuments devoted to figures from the past and the role of historical culture in the creation of national identity.

Author : Derek Hastings
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350303607

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Nationalism in Modern Europe by Derek Hastings Pdf

Derek Hastings's Nationalism in Modern Europe is the essential guide to a potent political and cultural phenomenon that featured prominently across the modern era. With firm grounding in transnational and global contexts, the book traces the story of nationalism in Europe from the French Revolution to the present. Hastings reflects on various nationalist ideas and movements across Europe, and always with a keen appreciation of other prevalent signifiers of belonging – such as religion, race, class and gender – which helps to inform and strengthen the analysis. The text shines a light on key historiographical trends and debates and includes 20 images, 14 maps and a range of primary source excerpts which can serve to sharpen vital analytical skills which are crucial to the subject. New content and features for the second edition include: - A chapter examining region, religion, class and gender as alternative 'markers of identity' throughout the 19th century - An enhanced global dimension that covers transnational fascism and non-European comparatives - Additional primary source excerpts and figures - Historiographical updates throughout which account for recent research in the field

Author : Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541603202

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The Age of Revolutions by Nathan Perl-Rosenthal Pdf

A panoramic new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress and reaction went hand in hand The revolutions that raged across Europe and the Americas over seven decades, from 1760 to 1825, created the modern world. Revolutionaries shattered empires, toppled social hierarchies, and birthed a world of republics. But old injustices lingered on and the powerful engines of revolutionary change created new and insidious forms of inequality. In The Age of Revolutions, historian Nathan Perl-Rosenthal offers the first narrative history of this entire era. Through a kaleidoscope of lives both familiar and unknown—from John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Napoleon to an ambitious French naturalist and a seditious Peruvian nun—he retells the revolutionary epic as a generational story. The first revolutionary generation, fired by radical ideas, struggled to slip the hierarchical bonds of the old order. Their failures molded a second generation, more adept at mass organizing but with an illiberal tint. The sweeping political transformations they accomplished after 1800 etched social and racial inequalities into the foundations of modern democracy. A breathtaking history spanning three continents, The Age of Revolutions uncovers how the period’s grand political transformations emerged across oceans and, slowly and unevenly, over generations.

Author : Alvin Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192883742

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United Kingdoms by Alvin Jackson Pdf

The United Kingdom is weakening, and this book helps to explain why. Alvin Jackson examines the UK in the light of the experience of similar union states elsewhere, offering the first sustained comparative study across the long nineteenth century and beyond. The UK was not in fact the only self-styled 'united kingdom' of the time: Jackson argues strikingly and originally that Britain exported the idea of union through the advocacy or encouragement of other multinational united kingdoms at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The work is distinctive in its geographical breadth. Jackson draws together the histories of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and England and explores the links between them and Sweden-Norway, the United Netherlands, Austria-Hungary and the United Canadas - and many other polities across the globe. United Kingdoms looks too at the institutions and agencies affecting the condition of union - from monarchy, aristocracy, and religion through to class, money, and violence. Jackson offers new overarching arguments about the origins, survival, and fall of all union states, and in doing so, sheds new light on the particular history, condition, and fate of the UK.

Author : Sören Koch,Marius Mikkel Kjølstad
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1171 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783031277450

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Handbook on Legal Cultures by Sören Koch,Marius Mikkel Kjølstad Pdf

Cooperation across borders requires both knowledge of and understanding of different cultures. This is especially true when it comes to the law. This handbook is the first to comprehensively present selected legal cultures based on a very specific set of structural elements which can be found in all such cultures. Legal cultures are a product of and impacted by certain fundamental and commonly shared ideas on and expectations of the law. In all modern societies these ideas are to a certain degree institutionalized or at least embedded in institutionalized practices. These practices determine the way lawyers are educated and apply the law, how they engage with the ongoing internationalization of law and what kind of values they adhere to. Looking at these elements separately enables the reader to identify similarities and differences and to explain them contextually. Understanding these general features of legal cultures can help avoid misunderstandings or misinterpretations of foreign law and its application. Accordingly, this handbook is a necessary starting point for all kinds of legal comparative studies conducted by academics, students, judges and other legal practitioners.

Author : Felice Batlan,Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030802714

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Histories of Legal Aid by Felice Batlan,Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen Pdf

This book focuses on the history of the provision of legal aid and legal assistance to the poor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in eight different countries. It is the first such book to bring together historical work on legal aid in a comparative perspective, and allows readers to analogise and contrast historical narratives about free legal aid across countries. Legal aid developed as a result of industrialisation, urbanization, immigration, the rise of philanthropy, and what were viewed as new legal problems. Closely related, was the growing professionalisation of lawyers and the question of what duties lawyers owed society to perform free work. Yet, legal aid providers in many countries included lay women and men, leading at times to tensions with the bar. Furthermore, legal aid often became deeply politicized, creating dramatic conflicts concerning the rights of the poor to have equal access to justice.

Author : Henri Pirenne
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Belgium
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Belgian Democracy Its Early History by Henri Pirenne Pdf

Author : Jane Judge
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789462701571

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The United States of Belgium by Jane Judge Pdf

New and comprehensive insights into the seminal events that shaped Belgian identity In 1790, between the birth of America (1776) and the creation of the French National Assembly (1789), nine provinces nestled between the French and Dutch borders declared themselves a new free and independent country: the United States of Belgium. Before then, the provinces had been part of the vast Austrian Habsburg Empire ruled by Joseph II. In 1789 revolutionaries from Brussels to Ghent to Namur recruited a grass-roots army that, to the surprise of many, successfully chased imperial forces from the majority of the territories. The exhilaration of military triumph and political independence quickly faded as revolutionary factions fought each other and the European monarchies became more nervous in the face of French radicalization. Yet, the course of events had fostered the solidification of a new identity among the provinces’ inhabitants: Belgianness. This is the story of the emergence of Belgianness in the crucible of revolution. The United States of Belgium tells the story of the First Belgian Revolution before the creation of a language barrier between French and Dutch. It incorporates over 50 contemporary images of the revolutionary era.

Author : Wim Klooster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108692984

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The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: Volume 2, France, Europe, and Haiti by Wim Klooster Pdf

Volume II covers the revolutions of France, Europe, and Haiti, with particular focus on the French and Haitian Revolutions and the changes they wrought. An important reference text for historians of the Atlantic World with a keen interest in Europe.

Author : Els Witte,Jan Craeybeckx,Alain Meynen
Publisher : ASP / VUBPRESS / UPA
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9789054875178

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Political History of Belgium by Els Witte,Jan Craeybeckx,Alain Meynen Pdf

The political history of Belgium is a fascinating story that should not be kept from speakers of English in Belgium and abroad. From an international point of view, Belgium has been a trendsetter in many ways. It was the first country on the European continent to experience a quick process of industrialisation, with the development of the first liberal state following closely behind. More than elsewhere, liberalism reigned supreme in the 19th century, and as a result the social question was raised with great vehemence. The World Wars put Belgium in the middle of the fighting twice over; especially after 1945, the country played a prominent international role, first in the foundation of the Atlantic alliance and the European construction, and later in the decolonisation of the Congo. In the meantime, Belgium has developed into one of the countries experiencing the full force of globalisation, and, thanks to Brussels, into one of the preeminent international political centres. Belgium is also a model of pacification democracy. Throughout many conflicts during the 19th and 20th centuries, an enduring compromise grew between Catholics and freethinkers, making Belgium one of the most pluralistic countries in Europe today. The fierce conflict between workers and employers, in its turn, led to a well-functioning model of a consultation and welfare state. Two cultures live together in Belgium. Up until the second half of the past century, the Flemish majority was at an economic, political and cultural disadvantage; during the process of catching up, coinciding with the demise of the Walloon economy, a complex federal model developed, in which cosmopolitan Brussels takes a very special position. This book aims to offer a historical perspective in interpreting the current tensions in Belgian politics based on scientific literature. Political History of Belgium is without doubt the outstanding authoritative reference work about the political history of a country at the centre of the development of Europe. As such, it offers essential background information for politicians, policy makers, civil servants, journalists, researchers, students and anyone with an interest in Belgium and Europe.

Author : David J. Wertheim,Judith Frishman,Ido de Haan
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9789052603872

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Borders and Boundaries in and Around Dutch Jewish History by David J. Wertheim,Judith Frishman,Ido de Haan Pdf

This study explores the shifting boundaries and identities of historic and contemporary Jewish communities. The contributors assert that, geographically speaking, Jewish people rarely lived in ghettos and have never been confined within the borders of one nation or country. Whereas their places of residence may have remained the same for centuries, the countries and regimes that ruled over them were rarely as constant, and power struggles often led to the creation of new and divisive national borders. Taking a postmodern historical approach, the contributors seek to reexamine Jewish history and Jewish studies through the lens of borders and boundaries.

Author : Nathaniel Wolloch
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 982 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004508040

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Moderate and Radical Liberalism by Nathaniel Wolloch Pdf

A new reading of a crucial chapter in the history of social and political thought – the transition from the late Enlightenment to early liberalism.

Author : Randall Lesaffer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521877985

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European Legal History by Randall Lesaffer Pdf

This historical introduction to the civil law tradition considers the political and cultural context of Europe's legal history from its Roman roots. Political, diplomatic and constitutional developments are discussed, and the impacts of major cultural movements, such as scholasticism, humanism, the Enlightenment and Romanticism, on law and jurisprudence are highlighted.