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 ...

Much of Europe went to the barricades in 1848—the first and last truly European revolution there has ever been. This seismic year, documented with panache by Christopher Clark in his ...

In 1848, a number of states across Western Europe exploded spontaneously into revolution. Years of economic slump and post-French Revolutionary suppression lay behind these outbursts, along with ...

Some pundits have compared the recent uprisings in the Middle East to the American Revolution or to the upheavals in Eastern Europe that ended the Cold War. But the 1848 revolutions in Europe may ...

The National Assembly that met in May 1848 in Frankfurt's ... the status quo remained in central Europe for the time being. But the events of the German Revolutions had made it clear that the ...

The European revolutions of 1848–9 were one of those pivotal events that seemed to promise so much and delivered so little. The British historian A J P Taylor remarked that Germany reached a turning ...

All revolutions bring to the surface an extraordinary collection ... A curious aura of romanticism suffuses the whole European upheaval of 1848; but this quality is particularly apparent in the part ...