Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849 (Clark Christopher)(Pevná vazba)

An acclaimed historian offers a magisterial account of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe from France to Denmark to Moldavia, the charismatic actors who propelled them forward, and their deep and lasting consequences. Historically, 1848 has long been overshadowed by the French Revolution of 1789, the Paris Commune of 1870, and the Russian revolutions of the early twentieth century. And yet in 1848, nearly all of Europe was aflame with conflict. Parallel political tumults spread like brush fire across the entire continent, leading to more significant and lasting change than earlier upheavals. And they brought with them a new awareness of the concept of history; the men and women of 1848 saw and shaped what was happening around them through the lens of previous revolutions. Celebrated Cambridge historian Christopher Clark describes this continental uprising as "the
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