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Revolutions of 1848: a social history (2. print ed.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Pr. ISBN 978-0-691-00756-4., despite the subtitle this is a traditional political narrative; Sperber, Jonathan (2005). The European Revolutions, 1848–1851. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-139-44590-0. Stearns, Peter N. (1974). The revolutions of 1848 ...
The book was published in October 1954. Its central theme is the struggle between the Great Powers for the domination of Europe between the revolutions of 1848 and the end of the Great War. As Taylor wrote: In the state of nature which Hobbes imagined, violence was the only law, and life was 'nasty, brutish and short'. Though individuals never ...
The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848 is a book by British historian Eric Hobsbawm, first published in 1962. It is the first in a trilogy of books about " the long 19th century " (coined by Hobsbawm), followed by The Age of Capital: 1848–1875 , and The Age of Empire: 1875–1914 . [ 1 ]
Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848–1849 is a book written by Christopher Clark and published by the Crown Books division of Penguin Random House in 2023. It explores the history of the European revolutions of 1848 .
Russia, despite being largely unaffected by the revolutions of 1848, sends armies to aid the Habsburgs in the Hungarian revolution of 1848. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Russia suffers major disasters such as a major cholera epidemic, a bad harvest, and an increase in fires due to weather.
The Great Boom of chapter 2 covers the dramatic economic transformation and expansion of the years from 1848 to the early 1870s, an economic boom that he argues helped provide European governments, nearly brought to the brink by revolution in 1848–1849, "breathing-space" to recover and stabilize their regimes and domestic societies.
Map of Europe in 1848–1849 depicting the main revolutionary centers. There was a wave of revolutions in Europe, collectively known as the Revolutions of 1848. It remains the most widespread revolutionary wave in European history, but within a year, reactionary forces had regained control, and the revolutions collapsed.
1848 is historically famous for the wave of revolutions, a series of widespread struggles for more liberal governments, which broke out from Brazil to Hungary; although most failed in their immediate aims, they significantly altered the political and philosophical landscape and had major ramifications throughout the rest of the century.