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Narratives of Dictatorship in the Age of Revolution - Emotions, Power and Legitimacy in the Atlantic Space (Hardcover)
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Narratives of Dictatorship in the Age of Revolution - Emotions, Power and Legitimacy in the Atlantic Space (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History
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Between the mid-eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the idea
of dictatorship changed drastically, leaving back the ancient Roman
paradigm and opening the way to a rule with extraordinary powers
and which was unlimited in time. While the French Revolution
produced an acceleration of history and created new narratives of
dictatorship, with Napoleon Bonaparte as its most iconic
embodiment, the Latin American struggle for independence witnessed
an unprecedented concentration of rulers seeking those new nations'
sovereignty through dictatorial rule. Starting from the assumption
that the age of revolution was one of dictators too, this book aims
at exploring how this new type of rulers whose authority was no
longer based on dynastic succession or religious consecration
sought legitimacy. By unveiling the role of emotions - hope, fear
and nostalgia - in the making of a new paradigm of rule and
focusing on the narratives legitimizing and de-legitimizing
dictatorship, this study goes beyond traditional conceptual
history. For this purpose, different sources such as libels,
history treatises, encyclopedias, plays, poems, librettos, but also
visual material will be resorted to. This book is essential reading
for scholars and students of modern history, the history of
emotions, intellectual history, global history, cultural studies
and political science.
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