07/12/21-14:00, ‘Men in Arms’: Banditry, Revolution, and Counter-guerrilla (ca.1750s-1915)-1
The struggle for sovereignty characterized the transition from the ancien régime to the modern world. Since the Atlantic Revolutions and up to the First World War, the rise of new empires and nation-states sharpened massive phenomena of insurgency and counterinsurgency. In an era of porous borders and fragile institutions, challenging or defending order engaged not only regular forces and armies, but also a diverse range of “men in arms”. Charismatic figures, organized in private companies or highly mobile irregular units, led actions of banditry, guerrilla warfare, and ethnic-religious revolt, interweaving individual ambitions with more general type claims. Bringing together case studies from Latin America to Central Europe to North Africa, the seminar explores practices and military strategies of irregular warfare in the modern world
Speakers
Emiliano Beri
Università di Genova
Paolo Calcagno
Università di Genova
Carmen Caligiuri
Università di San Marino
Antoine-Marie Graziani
Université de Corse Pascal-Paoli
Arianna Arisi Rota
Università di Pavia
Angél R. Lombardi Boscán
Universidad del Zulia
Andrés M. Vicent Fanconi
European University Institute
Alessandro Bonvini
Scuola Superiore Meridionale (Università di Napoli ‘Federico II’)
Carmine Pinto
Università di Salerno
Daniel Macías Fernández
Universidad de Cantabria
Gregorio Alonso
Università di Leeds
Fernando Padilla Angulo
University of Bristol
Dmitar Tasić
Univerzita Hradec Králové
Spyros Tsoutsoumpis
New Europe College, Institute for Advanced Study
Martin Valkov
Sofijski Universitet
Jacopo Lorenzini
Università di Macerata
Coordinator
Alessandro Bonvini
Scuola Superiore Meridionale (Università di Napoli ‘Federico II’)