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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