Civil wars in the age of revolutions: a historiographical path
Journal title SOCIETÀ E STORIA
Author/s Giacomo Zanasi
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2025/188
Language Italian Pages 31 P. 389-419 File size 119 KB
DOI 10.3280/SS2025-188005
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The author aims to analyse the development and heuristic potential of the concept of civil war as applied to a specific historical period, the age of revolutions, through the presentation of historiography on the subject. The author argues that applying this type of analysis to revolutionary events has not been uniform, due to the polemical and delegitimizing connotations often associated with the concept of civil war. Based on this distinction, the author identifies historiographical traditions that have accepted this category and others that have hesitated to apply it. The greater or lesser interpretative success of the civil war category applied to different spatial and temporal contexts of the revolutionary era reflects the existence of a lively but varied field of study.
Keywords: civil war; Age of Revolutions; historiography; analytical categories, interpretative fortune; global history
Giacomo Zanasi, Guerre civili nell’età delle rivoluzioni: un percorso storiografico in "SOCIETÀ E STORIA " 188/2025, pp 389-419, DOI: 10.3280/SS2025-188005