{"title":"Arming the people in defense of the King: counterrevolutionary and royalist militias in Europe (1789-1830)","authors":"Álvaro París Martín","doi":"10.5565/rev/rubrica.214","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The European Ancien Régime ended in a context of civil war, in which the popular sectors embraced a new relationship with politics. The role played in this process by counterrevolutionary and royalist militias, has received less attention from historian than their revolutionary counterparts. I will first provide an overview of European royalist militias. Then I will focus on three of these forces, created during the Restorations in Naples (1799), France (1815) and Spain (1823). Finally, from these particular cases, I will offer a comparative approach on the role of arms in counterrevolutionary political participation across Europe.","PeriodicalId":36376,"journal":{"name":"Rubrica Contemporanea","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Rubrica Contemporanea","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/rubrica.214","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The European Ancien Régime ended in a context of civil war, in which the popular sectors embraced a new relationship with politics. The role played in this process by counterrevolutionary and royalist militias, has received less attention from historian than their revolutionary counterparts. I will first provide an overview of European royalist militias. Then I will focus on three of these forces, created during the Restorations in Naples (1799), France (1815) and Spain (1823). Finally, from these particular cases, I will offer a comparative approach on the role of arms in counterrevolutionary political participation across Europe.