Table of Contents

Introduction: the ambiguities of revolution in the nineteenth-century Isser Woloch; 1. European visions of the French revolution Sergio Luzzatto; 2. The constitution of 1812 and the Spanish road to parliamentary monarchy Richard Herr; 3. Revolution, independence, and liberty in Latin America Richard J. Walter; 4. Popular constitutionalism and revolution in England and Ireland Iain McCalman; 5. Contested freedoms in the French revolutions, 1830-1871 John M. Merriman; 6. The paradoxes of Italy's nineteenth-century political culture Raymond Grew; 7. The German states and the Euroipean revolution James J. Sheehan; 8. Lawful revolutions and the many meanings of freedom in the Habsburg monarchy Istvan Deak; 9. Revolution and the theater of public life in Imperial Russia Laura Engelstein; Abbreviations; Notes; Index.