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mods: Constitutionalism, legitimacy, and power nineteenth-century experiences Grotke, Kelly L 1966- editor. Prutsch, Markus Josef 1981- editor. text bibliography conference publication Electronic books. proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès. nyu Oxford New York Oxford University Press 2014 First edition. monographic eng remote 1 online resource (xiv, 431 pages) Critically analysing 19th century constitutions in tandem with the political and social circumstances of their creation, enactment, and stated objectives, this book explicitly counters any simplistic narratives asserting that constitutions offer a straightforward, law-based path to increasing democracy, equality and liberty. Constitutions as anti-revolutionary devices -- A nineteenth-century 'Truman Doctrine' avant la lettre? : constitutional liberty abroad and the Parliamentary debate about British foreign policy from Castlereagh to Palmerston / Horst Dippel -- State building by means of constitution in the Italian constitutional monarchy / Anna Gianna Manca -- 'Monarchical constitutionalism' in post-Napoleonic Europe : concept and practice / Markus J. Prutsch -- Restorations and constitutions / Volker Sellin -- Constitutions and the justification of new social inequalities -- Rethinking women's suffrage in the nineteenth century : local government and entanglements of property and gender in the Austrian half of the Habsburg monarchy, Sweden, and the United Kingdom / Birgitta Bader-Zaar -- Constitution, ownership, and human rights / Olivier Beaud -- Constitutionalism, inheritance, and orders of property : land laws in nineteenth-century Britain and Germany / Monika Wienfort -- Constitutions as promoters of nationalism -- 'Equality among the Nationalities' and the peoples (Volksstämme) of the Habsburg Empire / Brigitte Mazohl -- 'Long live Sultan Abdülaziz, long live the nation, long live the constitution ... ' / Aylin Koçunyan -- The Norwegian C…