EAN: 9780241347669

REVOLUTIONARY SPRING - CHRISTOPHER CLARK GEBUNDEN

A Telegraph  Sunday Times  Economist and TLS Book of the Year  'One of the best history books
you will read this decade' History Today    An exhilarating reappraisal of one of the most
dramatic years in European history  from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalkers   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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