Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Mind the legal gap (1832-44): the Polizeistaat, 'Enlightened reforms' and their liberal critics; 2. 'Romanist' jurisprudence: liberty, property and the merits of an agrarian society (1830s-1850s); 3. 'It's more than economics, stupid': political economy and the limits of 'industrial' economics (1840s-1860s); 4. Constitutional liberalism: rights, sovereignty and statehood (late 1840s-1860s; 5. The law of nations, sovereignty, and the international autonomy of the Greek state; 6. Ideas into practice: the 'lawful' revolution and the building of a new constitutional order (1860s-1870s); Conclusion. Placing Greek liberalism within a Europe-wide perspective.

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This history of nineteenth-century Greek liberalism complicates our understanding of European liberalism and its relationship with the state.

About the Author

Michalis Sotiropoulos is currently the 1821 Fellow in Modern Greek Studies at the British School at Athens. He is a historian of modern Europe specialising in the intellectual history of the Mediterranean and the Greek world in the long nineteenth century. His publications include studies of the Greek Revolution of 1821, on law and the formation of states, and on the historiography on the Age of Revolutions.