Noble-Bourgeois Elites in an Age of Revolutions, c. 1790–1850

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ID8957256
AuthorsAmerigo Caruso (0000-0001-8945-652X, University of Bonn, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume66
Issue5
Pages1034-1052
Publication date2023-08-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Historical Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0018246x23000389
OpenAlexW4386121182
LanguageEN
References cited25

This article focuses on the shift toward post-revolutionary politics supported by reform-minded aristocratic clans and their bourgeois allies. Using the example of the Balbo family – one of the leading aristocratic families in Sardinia-Piedmont – I will argue that the quest for stability and pragmatism is crucial to understanding the political, cultural, and ideological reorientations within the noble-bourgeois elites in the first age of global revolutions. Family history is a lens through which it is possible to look afresh at this vital period of social transformations, state expansion, and political modernization. The article explores the Balbos’ family history across generations and genders, not only in the revolutionary and Napoleonic period, but also in the decades after the Congress of Vienna. In doing so, it sheds new light on the course of state-building processes, constitutional reforms, and the formation of a new, composite elite, which would largely dominate European politics until the end of the nineteenth century

Aesthetics · Bourgeoisie · Clan · Economic history · Elite · Ideology · Modernization theory · Period (music · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Pragmatism · Sociology · State (computer science · European Political History Analysis · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law · Philosophy

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