Dictatorship in the Nineteenth Century

Moisés Prieto is an Associate Researcher at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He was previously an academic visitor at the University of Oxford, and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research embraces dictatorship in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, media history, the history of migration, and the history of emotions.

Introduction: "The dictator is coming…" Part I: Conceptualisations 1. The Napoleonic Regime: a paradigm or an anachronism for the new century? 2. Caesarism in the Nineteenth Century 3. Dictatorship, Bonapartism, Caesarism: On Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire 4: Military dictatorship as the ‘reign of the mightier’: Karl Ludwig von Haller’s organicist concept of natural order and autocratic rule Part II: Experiences 5. Tyrants or fathers in the bosom of the family? The Argentine caudillos of the post-independence-era as "good dictators" 6: Caudillismo and Gender in the Hispanic World: the case of Peru, 1810s-1840 Part III: Transfers 7. Garibaldi and the dictatorship: features and cultural sources 8. The Epitome of Modern Dictatorship in the Early Nineteenth Century: Dr. Francia in Paraguay, or: "The Chinese Emperor of the West" 9. An Iconography of Early Nineteenth-Century Dictatorship in the Atlantic Space