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 Constitution of 1814 between European restoration and liberal nationalism / Dag Michalsen -- Ariadne's thread : navigating postcolonial Spanish America's labyrinth through constitution building in New Granada (1809-1812) / Francisco A. Ortega -- Constitutions as instruments of imperialism -- The suspension of constitutionalism in the heart of darkness / Felix Hanschmann -- Modernizing heterogeneous empire : the Russian Fundamental Laws of 1906 and the incorporation of the Grand Duchy of Finland / Tatiana Khripachenko -- Visions of constitutionalism : the implementation of representative institutions in the British Colonies / Thibault Guilluy -- 'The most decorous veil which legal ingenuity can weave' : the British annexation of New Zealand (1840) / Paul McHugh -- Constitutions as legal and political texts -- What is a constitution? : what is constitutional history? / Olivier Jouanjan -- Egon Zweig and the intellectual history of constituent power / Duncan Kelly -- Unintended democracy : parliamentary reform in the UK / Jo Eric Khushal Murkens. edited by Kelly L. Grotke and Markus J. Prutsch. "This volume is the result of two working group meetings on constitutional history, held at the University of Helsinki in May 2010 and April 2011 under the auspices of the Research Project Europe 1815-1914"--Acknowledgements. Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-417) and index. English. e------ Constitutional history Europe 19th century Congresses Histoire constitutionnelle Europe 19e siècle Congrès LAW Constitutional LAW Public Constitutional history Europe 1800-1899 fast KJC4431 342.02 86.50 constitutional law: general. 86.86 European law. Constitutionalism, legitimacy, and power Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014 First edition. (DLC) 2014943573 (OCoLC)892043540 9780191789632 0191789631 9780198723059 0198723059 9780191034701 0191034703 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/4425 NLGGC 141127 20260319160135.7 in00005711311 eng