Title: Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century (The Making of Modern Freedom)
Description: This book surveys the various responses to the French Revolution of 1789-1799 in Europe, Britain, Latin America, and Russia. Themes include the establishment of parliaments and constitutions, associational and press freedoms, and the regional wave of counter-revolutuons to the 1848 “springtime of the peoples.”
Subjects: French revolution reception, 1848 revolutions, British Reform Act of 1832, conservatives and liberals, Revolutions, Constitutional history, Liberty, History
Places: Paris, Frankfurt, Vienna, London, Berlin, Cadiz, Naples
People: Napoleon Bonaparte, Simon Bolivar, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Time periods: 1789-1848, 1871