The nineteenth century experienced the origins of bureaucratic state formation in Europe often amidst extended political and social turmoil. This course examines the relation between revolutions and state building in Europe in the “Age of Revolutions” and afterwards between the French Revolution and the German unification. Drawing from examples mostly from France, Prussia, the Habsburg Empire, and the Ottoman Empire/Greece, this postgraduate lecture course investigates the expansion of executive authority across Europe during and after major nineteenth century revolutions and upheavals.
- Trainer/in: Christos Aliprantis