Poses the theoretical assumptions for a new reading of political dynamics during the nineteenth century, showing the centrality of exile as a moment of reflection and exchange within liberal movements. The Mediterranean basin appears less as a well-defined geographical space than it as a conceptual entity in which a liberal ideal destined to pervade the whole European continent is built through a process of transmission, contamination and re-appropriation.
Keywords: Restoration, exile, Mediterranean, transnational history, circulation of political ideas.