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Revolutionary Spring - Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 (Hardcover)
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Revolutionary Spring - Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 (Hardcover)
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'People embraced each other, shook hands, joy radiated from every
eye, there was no limit to the celebrations . . .' There can be few
more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the
spring of 1848. Almost as if by magic, in city after city, from
Palermo to Paris to Venice, huge crowds gathered, sometimes
peaceful and sometimes violent, and the political order that had
held sway since the defeat of Napoleon simply collapsed.
Christopher Clark's spectacular new book recreates with verve, wit
and insight this extraordinary period. Some rulers gave up at once,
others fought bitterly, but everywhere new politicians, beliefs and
expectations surged forward. The role of women in society, the end
of slavery, the right to work, national independence and the final
emancipation of the Jews all became live issues. In a brilliant
series of set-pieces, Clark conjures up both this ferment of new
ideas and then the increasingly ruthless and effective series of
counter-attacks launched by regimes who still turned out to have
many cards to play. But even in defeat, exiles spread the ideas of
1848 around the world and - for better and sometimes much worse - a
new and very different Europe emerged from the wreckage.
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