num_pages: 232
description: Martyn Lyons re-assesses European history between the fall of Napoleon and the Crimean War. Refusing to characterize the period as a Restoration. Lyons presents the struggle of the European monarchies for credibility in the wake of conflicts which had shattered the mystique of kingship. Lyons stresses the invented aspects of emerging nationalism as well as the important process of rebuilding a political culture after 1815 and the democratic Revolutions of 1848.
language: English
title: Postrevolutionary Europe: 1815-1856
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan