The Intellectual Origins of the Belgian Revolution Political Thought and Disunity in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1815-1830 /

• Main Author: Marteel, Stefaan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Political History
• Subjects: Europe-History-1492-.; World politics.; Great Britain-History.; Intellectual life-History.; History, Modern.; History of Modern Europe.; Political History.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Intellectual Studies.; Modern History.

This book explores the political ideas of the Belgian Revolution of 1830, which led to the break-up of the Restoration state of the 'united' Kingdom of the Netherlands. It uncovers the origins of liberalism and political Catholicism in the Southern Netherlands in the wake of the French Rev...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Part I: Liberals
• Chapter 2. Political Debates in the Wake of the Declaration of the Constitution: The Legitimacy Problem and the Origins of a Liberal Opposition
• Chapter 3. Opposition against National Uniformity and for Limited Government
• Chapter 4. Monarchical Government, Opposition and a Divided Political Nation
• Part II: Catholics
• Chapter 5. Political Catholicism in the Southern Netherlands between the Old Regime and the Restoration, 1787-1815
• Chapter 6. Ancient and Modern Rights: Continuity and Discontinuity in Catholic Political Thought, 1814-1830
• PART III: Revolutionaries
• Chapter 7. A Union of Catholicism and Liberalism
• Chapter 8. The Reception of French Catholic Philosophy within Belgian Catholicism: Towards a New Intellectual Matrix
• Chapter 9. Towards Belgian Nationalism and a National Revolution
• Chapter 10. The Belgian Constitution and Post-Revolutionary Politics in the Context of the History of Political Thought
• Index.