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- Title
Arming the People against Revolution: Royalist Popular Militias in Restoration Europe.
- Authors
SARLIN, SIMON
- Abstract
During the Restoration era, a number of popular militias were created by monarchical regimes, in France, Spain, Portugal and various Italian states. Th ese various experiences have not received the same attention from historians as the civic militias implemented by the Revolution and then by the liberal monarchies. Inspired by the latter but also by older precedents, these royalist popular militias were to demonstrate the ability of conservative regimes to mobilize the people and fi ght liberalism with its own weapons. Th eir importance was therefore both symbolic, as a demonstration of the loyalty and support of the popular masses, and practical, providing more extensive, cheaper and sometimes more reliable forces than regular armies to guarantee order and control the contesting oppositions. Th eir recruitment and manpower thus provide instruments for measuring active popular support for traditional monarchies.
- Subjects
MILITIAS; MONARCHY; POLITICAL restorations; HISTORY of liberalism; MILITARY weapons; SPAIN. Ejercito
- Publication
Varia História, 2019, Vol 35, Issue 67, p177
- ISSN
0104-8775
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/0104-87752019000100007