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Narratives of Dictatorship in the Age of Revolution: Emotions, Power and Legitimacy in the Atlantic Space book cover

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Narratives of Dictatorship in the Age of Revolution Emotions, Power and Legitimacy in the Atlantic Space

By Moisés Prieto Copyright 2023
232 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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,... Read more

1. Introduction: A ship named ‘Dictator’

2. The dictator: palingenesis and contested rule

3. Hope and order

4. Fear and terror

5. Memory and nostalgia

6. Epilogue: 1848/49 or ‘The spirits that one summoned’

Bibliography

Biography

Moisés Prieto is adjunct researcher and lecturer at the University of Bern as well as former research fellow at the Prussian Privy State Archives in Berlin. His research embraces the history of dictatorship in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, media history, visual history, history of migration and the history of emotions.

 “Moisés Prieto emerges as an academic with the capacity to open up new debates and reflections in the field in which he has an impact, as well as demon­strating a command of historiographical traditions and an excellent documentary analysis.”

Javier Sadarangani, Universität Hamburg (IBEROAMERICAN REVIEWS DOI: 10.18441/ibam.24.2024.85.295-392)

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