Certain years in European history — 1789, 1914 and 1989 among them — mark major inflection points, where history that had seemed to be going in one direction suddenly veered off into another. 1848, by ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper revisits the question of the impact of the 1848 revolutions on governance and administration across the European states. Few ...

Europe’s 1848 revolts were fueled by political, economic, and social pressures. This coverage examines how these historical ...

ON February 22, 1848, Richard Rush, the American Minister to the Court of the Tuileries, noted in his diary that he had just returned from a soirée at the Roche-foucaulds'. The party was not large but ...

Revolutions in the Middle East have inspired many comparisons, but they may look more like the European revolutions of 1848. As University of Missouri professor Jonathan Sperber tells Guy Raz, 1848 — ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The reaction from most of my friends, as I urged them to take on Christopher Clark’s massive and revelatory history of the revolutions ...

“Each revolution must be assessed in its own context, each had a distinctive impact. The revolutions spread from one point to another. They interacted to a limited extent. … The drama of each ...

Revolutionary Spring. By Christopher Clark. Allen Lane; 896 pages; £35. To be published in America by Crown in June; $40 At the outset of this magnificent chronicle of the events leading up to and ...

An article about the conditions of the working class in the German States and Vienna in the 1840s and the early beginnings of class consciousness… A short history of the newspaper Neue Rheinische ...

In the late eighteenth century, radical experiments in popular self-rule took hold and spread throughout Europe and North America, challenging monarchical authority and aristocratic hierarchy and ...