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 ...

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 ...

This is the story of the 1848 European revolutions, one of the most dramatic and significant moments in the history of the continent. Hungry workers and peasants joined forces with liberals and ...

A new history by Christopher Clark on the 1848 revolutions. In the final pages of Revolutionary Spring, the historian Christopher Clark writes that “the revolutions of 1848 seemed as old as ancient ...

It may be difficult to see ourselves as Pharaohs or Caesars, but the enduring (and romantic) image of long-haired radicals storming the barricades is very familiar. The ideological battle lines of ...

In the final pages of Revolutionary Spring, the historian Christopher Clark writes that “the revolutions of 1848 seemed as old as ancient Egypt when I learned about them at school.” Now, however, he ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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