Certain years in European history — 1789, 1914 and 1989 among them — mark major inflection points, where history that had seemed to be going in one direction suddenly veered off into another. 1848, by ...

In 1848, Europe was engulfed by a wave of revolutions unlike anything before. Liberals, nationalists, and workers challenged ...

A new history by Christopher Clark on the 1848 revolutions. In the final pages of Revolutionary Spring, the historian Christopher Clark writes that “the revolutions of 1848 seemed as old as ancient ...

"As for the greater number of revolutionists, they unhappily know only of the theatrical side of former revolutions as related with forced effect by historians, and they scarcely suspected the immense ...

ON February 22, 1848, Richard Rush, the American Minister to the Court of the Tuileries, noted in his diary that he had just returned from a soirée at the Roche-foucaulds'. The party was not large but ...

Some pundits have compared the recent uprisings in the Middle East to the American Revolution or to the upheavals in Eastern Europe that ended the Cold War. But the 1848 revolutions in Europe may ...

Europe's century of upheaval—and the revolutions in the middle of them—offer insights into the post–Arab Spring world. The Arab upheaval has been the cause of profound bewilderment in the developed ...

America and the revolutions of 1848. The European revolutions of 1848 were the occasion of Karl Marx’s famous dictum that everything in history happens twice—the first time as tragedy, the second time ...