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Ferdinand’s return to the throne in 1814 destroyed any hopes left for a constitutional monarchy, while tension between liberals and conservatives led to a century of conflict, marked by the upheavals of the three Carlist wars and the abortive First Republic, which was proclaimed in 1873.
(The "after all" that completes the title is wry, not just as in "surprise, surprise" but also "after all the cultural upheavals of the last decades."
This, too, caused major upheavals, and a million permanent refugees rushed the motherland, aggravating the shortage of housing and jobs.
The irony is that although Japan has continually triumphed over externally imposed adversity and upheavals, it seems unable to implement effective reforms to its own systems before problems reach crisis proportions.
He lived in the stable prosperity of the Venetian Republic and died before the revolutionary upheavals of the last quarter of the 18 th century that toppled so many hierarchies.