Constitutional Charters of the Ionian Islands

Cloth, 25 cm, 680 pp. Texts from printed editions and manuscripts containing constitutional texts of the Ionian Islands of the 19th century in greek, italian, english, french or turkish, along with the constitutional discourse written by Ugo Foscolo that shows strong affinities with the thought, objectives and deeds of John Capodistrias, who was to become the first president of independent Greece. The presentation of the entire corpus of Ionian Island constitutional texts (many of which have not been readily available to the reading public before now) is accompanied here by the insight of political and constitutional historians in specially commissioned introductory chapters. The constitutional texts reflect a complex web of converging and diverging forces that all contributed to the evolution of the constitutional debate in the Islands and which, it is hoped, will provide matter for further scholarly discussion regarding Ionian Island, Greek, European and Ottoman Turkish history.

CONTENTS:

The Republic of the Seven Islands: historical background

The transition, shaped by diplomatic compromise, from the old Venetian order of administrative autonomy to national and democratic integration

Constitutional texts of the Ionian Islands: a review

From non-constitutional improvisation to the Republican French: hopes and delusions

Choosing rulers: the allure of self-determination as a gambit in diplomatic intrigue

The Constitutional Treaty of 1800 and the 'Byzantine' Constitution. The Republic of the Seven Islands: a blueprint for dependence and hetero-determination

The revisionary project of 1801 and the revision of 1803: from controversy to compromise

Russian occupation and the illegitimate revision of 1806

Imperial France and the dissolution of the Republic of the Seven Islands

The treaty of Paris and the Constitution of 1817

Political conflict and publishing activity in the mid-19th century

1. Le tre Costituzioni (1800, 1803, 1817) delle sette Isole Jonie [N.B. Manessi]
2. The Two Constitutions (1800 and 1803) of the Ionian Islands with the relevant documents, plus the two Draft Constitutions of 1802 and 1806
3. Constitutional Chart of the United States of the Ionian Islands, 1817
4. Additions and Amendments to the Ionian Charter
5. The 1817 Constitution of the Ionian State, as revised

LETTERS FROM THE RUSSIANS AND TURKS AND RELEVANT MEMORANDA

PROVISIONAL DRAFT OF GOVERNANCE BY ANGELO ORIO, 1799

TREATY, IMPERIAL DIPLOMA, AND RELATED MEMORANDUM OF ANGELO ORIO

THE 1800 CONSTITUTION IN TURKISH

FIRMANS ON THE PROTECTION OF IONIAN ISLAND SHIPPING, AND LETTERS ADDRESSED BY THE SUBLIME PORTE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE IONIAN ISLANDS ON THE OBSERVANCE OF THE CONSTITUTION AND IMPERIAL DIPLOMA

Texts by Ugo Foscolo:

1. Stato Politico delle Isole Ionie scritto in Londra, nel 1817
2. Come ottenere modiftche alla Costituzione delle Isole Ionie
3. Appendice. Memoire relatif aux offices des les Isles loniennes

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