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Podcast: New Books in Italian Studies
Episode: Maurizio Isabella, "Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Description: After the turbulent years of the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna’s attempt to guarantee peace and stability across Europe, a new revolutionary movement emerged in the southern peripheries of the continent. In Southern Europe in the Age of Revolutions (Princeton University Press, 2023) Dr. Maurizio Isabella examines the historical moment in the 1820s when a series of simultaneous uprisings took the quest for constitutional government to Portugal, Spain, the Italian peninsula, Sicily and Greece. Dr. Isabella places these events in a broader global revolutionary context and, decentering conventional narratives of the origins of political modernity, revea...