Re-Imagining Democracy in the Mediterranean, 1780-1860Mediterranean states are often thought to have 'democratised' only in the post war era, as authoritarian regimes were successively overthrown. On its eastern and southern shores, the process is still contested. Re imagining Democracy looks back to an earlier era, the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and argues it was this era when some modern version of 'democracy' in the region first began. By the 1860s, representative regimes had been