The revolutions in Europe, 1848-1849 : from reform to reaction
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The revolutions in Europe, 1848-1849 : from reform to reaction
Oxford University Press, 2000
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Includes index
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Description
These essays arose out of lectures given in Oxford to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the 1848 revolutions in Europe. Authoritative, yet readable and colourful, they comprise judicious summaries of the existing state of knowledge, as well as new insights and unfamiliar information. The book also seeks to place the revolutionary events in their wider context: apart from chapters covering the main centres of disturbance in France, Germany, Italy, and the
Habsburg lands, there are discussions of the situation in Britain and Russia, which were affected but not convulsed by the disorders elsewhere; of reactions in the United States of America; and of the symbolism of 1848 for later democratic, radical, and socialist movements.
1848 marked the first breakdown of traditional authority across much of the continent, and as such is of profound significance in the development of modern European politics as a whole.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Revolutions of 1848-9 in France
- 3. The Revolutions of 1848-9 in Italy
- 4. Britain's Reaction to the Revolutions
- 5. The German Revolution of 1848-50 and the Sonderweg of Mecklenburg
- 6. A Pyrrhic Victory: The Russian Empire in 1848
- 7. The United States and the Revolutions of 1848
- 8. 1848-9 in the Habsburg Monarchy
- 9. 1848 in European Collective Memory
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