TY - BOOK ID - 32979449 TI - The Intellectual Origins of the Belgian Revolution : Political Thought and Disunity in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1815-1830 PY - 2018 SN - 3319894250 9783319894256 3319894269 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - National characteristics, Belgian. KW - Belgium KW - Netherlands KW - Politics and government KW - History KW - Belgian national characteristics KW - Europe-History-1492-. KW - World politics. KW - Great Britain-History. KW - Intellectual life-History. KW - History, Modern. KW - History of Modern Europe. KW - Political History. KW - History of Britain and Ireland. KW - Intellectual Studies. KW - Modern History. KW - Modern history KW - World history, Modern KW - World history KW - Colonialism KW - Global politics KW - International politics KW - Political history KW - Political science KW - Eastern question KW - Geopolitics KW - International organization KW - International relations KW - Europe—History—1492-. KW - Great Britain—History. KW - Intellectual life—History. KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Caractère national belge. KW - Belgique KW - 943 Vlaamse en Belgische geschiedenis 1830-1914 KW - Caractère national belge. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32979449 AB - 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 Revolution, and traces the development of political language in the context of the tensions between the Northern and Southern part of the united Netherlands. It shows how differences in ‘Dutch’ and ‘Belgian’ political and intellectual history resulted in different understandings of essential political concepts such as ‘sovereignty’ and ‘balance of powers’, as well as of the nature of the constitutional order of 1815. Finally, it traces the emergence of Belgian nationalism within the discourse of opposition against the government. Stefaan Marteel therefore provides a fresh perspective on the intellectual background of the rise of the nation-state in the nineteenth century. ER -