Armed groups, organized violence and the Euro-Mediterranean spaces (1870-1914)
Within the framework of the ERC project “The Dark Side of the Belle Époque. Political Violence and Armed Associations in Europe before the First World War”, the University of Padua and the École Française de Rome will be holding an international workshop in Rome on 23 January 2019. The workshop aims to create an original dialogue, both comparative and transnational, around a topic that is relatively new for the period 1870-1914, namely armed groups. This subject will be considered in relation to political violence and with a relatively flexible geography: Euro-Mediterranean spaces, understood in a broad sense. By focusing on armed groups and their forms of legitimization, action and organization, the study of political violence can empirically deepen our knowledge of the so-called “State monopoly of legitimate violence”. Armed groups and their forms of legitimacy were not unrelated to the power of the State, even though these groups were not integrated into national armies (at least, not directly). The main question to be addressed is the relationship between armed groups and the legitimate use of violence, by… read more
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