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

Prieto, Moisés (2022). Narratives of Dictatorship in the Age of Revolution. Emotions, Power and Legitimacy in the Atlantic Space. Routledge Studies in Modern History. London: Routledge 10.4324/9780429197291

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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.

Item Type:	Book (Monograph)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of History 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of History > Institute of History, Iberian and Latin American History
UniBE Contributor:	Prieto, Moises
Subjects:	900 History > 940 History of Europe 900 History > 980 History of South America
ISBN:	9780367186340
Series:	Routledge Studies in Modern History
Publisher:	Routledge
Language:	English
Submitter:	Moises Prieto
Date Deposited:	30 Nov 2022 07:27
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 16:29
Publisher DOI:	10.4324/9780429197291
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Dictatorship Latin America Age of Revolution History of Emotions Narratives
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/175236