Political History Working Group

The Political History Working Group (PHWG) is an open platform for researchers to address Early Modern and Modern political history, with special attention paid to the juncture between these two: the so-called long 19th century (1750-1917).

The main goal of this working group is to address new perspectives and methodologies of researching political history, discussing about them and enrichening our historiographical approach. Some of the topics to be approached and discussed are political cultures (and cultural approaches to politics), identities (with a special focus on gender, class and nationalism), politicization, state-building, social control and revolutions, all of them addressed mainly with a from-below perspective.