The European revolutions, 1848-1851
By: Jonathan Sperber
Series: New approaches to European history -- 2
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780521385268; 9780521386852
Subjects: Revolutions; Histoire; Revoluties; Révolutions; Politique et gouvernement; Revolution (1848); Revolution; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-269) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Society and social conflict in Europe during the 1840s. The countryside. Crafts, manufacturing and their social order. Social structure and elites. Social and economic trends. The state. Education and religion. Objects of social conflict in pre-1848 Europe. European society and its conflicts in the 1840s; title: 2. The pre-revolutionary political universe. The framework of political life. Forms of political participation and organization. Political doctrines and political movements in mid-nineteenth-century Europe. Nationalism. Party of order/party of movement; title: 3. The outbreak of revolution. Preceding the revolution: (1) the economic crisis. Preceding the revolution: (2) the political crisis. The verdict of the barricades. The "springtime of the peoples" Points of conflict: (1) popular mass movements. Points of conflict: (2) national unity and national war. Points of conflict: (3) governmental power and elections. The revolution in the balance; title: 4. Varieties of revolutionary experience.; title: The new contours of public life. Free to organize and associate. Tendencies of political development; title: 5. Polarization and confrontation. Patterns of confrontation, May-November 1848. The second wave of revolution; title: 6. The mid-century revolutions in European history. The anatomy of a revolution. 1789-1848-1917. Aspirations and accomplishments of the 1848 revolutions. The 1848 revolutions as political mass movement.