Caesarism in the Post-Revolutionary Age

Front matter

Markus J. Prutsch

Gaesarism in the olutio Dar y A ge

Crisis and Leat ersnip

Contents

Preface vii 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Object of Research 1 1.2 Scope of Study 7 2 Revolution and Crisis 13

2.1 The French Revolution: Sovereignty, Legitimacy and

Radicalism 13

Preface

To be able to say “thank you” is undoubtedly the most pleasant task related to the finalization of a long-term project as work-intensive as this present monograph. At the same time, however, there is the inherent risk of not taking adequate note of each and every one who has contributed in one way or another. I owe my thanks to a great many people for helping me in the various stages of researching and writing this book and the underlying habilitation thesis submitted at Heidelberg University in early 2018, on which its findings are largely based. Even if I fail to mention all of them here by name individually, my gratitude is no less sincere.

I would like to express my profound and collective thanks to all the colleagues, friends and companions who over the last few years have made the present study possible with their generous advice and support, be it in the form of valuable recommendations regarding structure and content, suggestions for sources and literature, or their active help in commenting on, revising and editing the draft manuscript. A special acknowledgment in this context to: Roisin Boyd, Deborah Fôlsche-Forrow, Kelly L. Grotke, Urban Kirchler, Lars Lehmann, Andrea Nicole Maier and Johan Rooryck.

I am particularly indebted to the European Research Council, which supported my preparatory work on this book in the context of the research project Europe 1815-1914 at the University of Helsinki, and to Volker Sellin, who has accompanied my academic life since the beginning of my university studies, and who as the diligent mentor of my habilitation continued to be the committed and conscientious while at the same time unassuming teacher I have always perceived him as.

Above all, my thanks go to my entire family, who have been an immeasurable mainstay for my research, above all Lisa, Valentin and Alva: Danke von Herzen for everything. Insufficient though this may be to compensate for the stresses and strains they were prepared to shoulder for this book to reach the stage of publication, I would like to dedicate my humble work to them.

Brussels, March 2019 vii viii