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From the Napoleonic Empire to the Age of Empire
This book explores imperial entanglements to reassess the Napoleonic Empire as a missing link—or at least an important chain—in the global and longue durée history of Empires. In recent years Napoleonic studies have, belatedly but resolutely, embraced the transnational historiographical turn, vastly expanding the field’s geographical scope. Its canonical chronological boundaries, on the other hand, appear increasingly narrow against this wider backdrop, giving the impression of a parenthetical, almost anachronistic aside from 1799 to 1815. What connects, and what doesn’t connect, the Napoleonic Empire to the Age of Empire, remains by and large an open question. Put another way, this book attempts to locate the Napoleonic empire in World History.
A Criminal Hero
In the spring of 1757, the Augustinian friar Leopoldo di San Pasquale was tried in Naples by the hierarchies of his own religious order on charges of financial fraud, heresy, and sexual immorality. He responded by accusing the heads of the convent of subjecting him to a series of inhuman cruelties, claiming to have been "buried alive". While waiting for a final judgment (it was pronounced seven years later, in 1764), the trial of Leopoldo di San Pasquale became a cultural phenomenon unlike any witnessed before in Naples. Cumulatively, reactions to the trial, both during and after it, broke the boundaries separating chronicle and literary fiction, engaged people’s faculties of reason and em...
Disguising Disease in Italian Political and Visual Culture
Although considered an isolated event, the Italian government’s initial resistant response to COVID-19 has deep historical roots. This is the first interdisciplinary book to critically examine the ongoing phenomenon of disguising contagious disease in Italy from Unification to the present. The book explores how governments, public opinion, social entities and cultural production have avoided or sublimated contagion during cholera, typhoid, syphilis, malaria, HIV and COVID-19 to impose narratives of the nation’s healthy body in Italy and its colonies. Examples range from a tuberculosis sanatorium in Capri that masked as a luxury hotel and hideaway for queer couples to an obscure but talen...
The Legacy of Vattel's Droit des gens
This edited collection offers a reassessment of the complicated legacy of Emer de Vattel’s Droit des gens, first published in 1758. One of the most influential books in the history of international law and a major reference point in the fields of international relations theory and political thought, this book played a role in the transformation of diplomatic practice in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. But how did Vattel’s legacy take shape? The volume argues that the enduring relevance of Vattel’s Droit des gens cannot be explained in terms of doctrines and academic disciplines that formed in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Instead, the chapters show how the complex...
Emer de Vattel and the Politics of Good Government
This book explores the history of the international order in the eighteenth and nineteenth century through a new study of Emer de Vattel’s Droit des gens (1758). Drawing on unpublished sources from European archives and libraries, the book offers an in-depth account of the reception of Vattel’s chief work. Vattel’s focus on the myth of good government became a strong argument for republicanism, the survival of small states, drafting constitutions and reform projects and fighting everyday battles for freedom in different geographical, linguistic and social contexts. The book complicates the picture of Vattel’s enduring success and usefulness, showing too how the work was published and translated to criticize and denounce the dangerousness of these ideas. In doing so, it opens up new avenues of research beyond histories of international law, political and economic thought.
Odious Debt
What are fallen tyrants owed? What makes debt illegitimate? And when is bankruptcy moral? Drawing on new archival sources, this book shows how Latin American nations have wrestled with the morality of indebtedness and insolvency since their foundation, and outlines how their history can shed new light on contemporary global dilemmas. With a focus on the early modern Spanish Empire and modern Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina, and based on archival research carried out across seven countries, Odious Debt studies 400 years of history and unearths overlooked congressional debates and understudied thinkers. The book shows how discussions on the morality of debt and default played a structuring rol...
A Commonwealth of Hope
A bold new interpretation of Augustine’s virtue of hope and its place in political life When it comes to politics, Augustine of Hippo is renowned as one of history’s great pessimists, with his sights set firmly on the heavenly city rather than the public square. Many have enlisted him to chasten political hopes, highlighting the realities of evil and encouraging citizens instead to cast their hopes on heaven. A Commonwealth of Hope challenges prevailing interpretations of Augustinian pessimism, offering a new vision of his political thought that can also help today’s citizens sustain hope in the face of despair. Amid rising inequality, injustice, and political division, many citizens w...
Le due repubbliche
Questo libro ricostruisce, per la prima volta, la storia di una generazione che ha creduto che la Rivoluzione francese potesse ripetersi e che, ad un certo punto, si trovò a riviverla sotto forma di una spettacolare duplicazione. È quello che accadde ai protagonisti della rivoluzione parigina del 1848, iniziata a febbraio con la caduta della monarchia e culminata, dopo una serie tumultuosa di giornate rivoluzionarie, a dicembre con l’elezione del principe Luigi Napoleone Bonaparte, il nipote dell’imperatore, alla carica di presidente della Repubblica. L’autore si interroga sull’influenza esercitata dalle previsioni storiche, formulate dai protagonisti tramite il raffronto tra passato e presente, sulle loro decisioni e sullo svolgimento dei fatti.
Tugend und Kraft
Dieses Buch nimmt ein entscheidendes Moment in der spätaufklärerischen Geschichte der Tugend in den Blick. In einer Reihe literaturwissenschaftlich ausgerichteter Einzelanalysen zeigt es, inwiefern die Arbeit an der Tugendsemantik um 1800 sowohl durch eine starke Bezugnahme auf die Tradition (vor allem antiker Prägung) als auch durch eine hoffnungsvolle Projektion in die Zukunft sich auszeichnet. Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung stehen die politische Revolution in Frankreich und ihre literarischen Aus- und Nachwirkungen in deutschsprachigen Territorien. Aus der Beschäftigung mit Texten u.a. von Chr. M. Wieland, F. Gentz und F. M. Klinger entsteht ein Bild von der Tugend, das ihre latente Verwandschaft mit dem Begriff der Kraft hervorhebt. Am Leitfaden des Topos von der Tugend-Kraft wird eine innovative Gesamtschau auf die Zeit um 1800 entfaltet, die sich insbesondere an historisch interessierte Literaturwissenschaftler*innen richten möchte.
Hungary as a Sport Superpower
What role has football (and sport in general) played in Hungarian foreign policy? Was there a continuity between the inter-war period and communism? Are foreign politics and sporting diplomacy synonyms? This book tries to provide answers to these questions through a careful examination of documents of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry and Hungarian newspapers, supplemented by documentation from several European countries. Through Hungarian football, the author traces a history of Hungary during the Age of Extremes with a special focus on the period during which sport played a particular role in Hungarian foreign policy: from 1924, the date of the Paris Olympics, the first time the country competed after World War I, to 1960, date of the Olympics of Rome. The result is a study from a particularly original perspective, highlighting, first and foremost, the transnational dimension of Hungarian football.
