EAN: 9780141988313

REVOLUTIONARY SPRING - CHRISTOPHER CLARK KARTON...

'One of the best history books you will read this decade' History Today'Fascinating 
suspenseful  revelatory  alive' The Times There can be few more exciting or frightening moments
in European history than the spring of 1848. 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 emancipation of the Jews all became live issues. 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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