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 ...

In November 1847, the Pozsony Diet was opened by the emperor of the Austrian empire: Ferdinand. At that time, no one could ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...