The reaction from most of my friends, as I urged them to take on Christopher Clark’s massive and revelatory history of the revolutions of 1848, was almost universally consistent. “1848? What happened ...

The National Assembly that met in May 1848 in Frankfurt's St. Paul's Church failed in its attempt to establish a German nation-state. But on the 175th anniversary, there are calls to commemorate it as ...

The 3 August 1848 issue of the New Era of Industry (Vol. 1 No. 9). The Voice of Industry (Vol. 3 No. 37 - 24 March 1848) The 24 March 1848 issue of the Voice of Industry (Vol. 3 No. 37). This is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Rapper ...

An article about the impact of the 1848 Revolution in France on its colonial possession of Senegal and the limits of freedom reform by decree, and the right to vote. The 1848 revolution marked a ...

“All governments face insoluble problems — that is what governments are for. It is in the nature of political problems that they cannot be ‘solved’.” This quote could refer to climate change, the war ...

Most revolutions do have specific goals and demands, most of the successful ones do have organized leadership that can mobilize at least a dedicated cadre of followers, and most have some idea what ...