Jonathan Sperber has updated and expanded his study of the European Revolutions between 1848-1851 in this second edition. Emphasizing the socioeconomic background to the revolutions, and the diversity of political opinions and experiences of participants, Sperber offers an inclusive narrative of the revolutionary events and a structural analysis of the reasons for the revolutions' ultimate failure. A wide-reaching conclusion and a detailed bibliography make his book ideal for classroom use and the general reader wishing a better knowledge of a major historical event.
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"Jonathan Sperber's book is the first comprehensive analysis of the revolutions of 1848 in Europe in a generation and it is well worth reading...Scholars and students of history alike will profit by the riches, both descriptive and analytical, provided for them by Professor Sperber...it is a welcome addition to the literature and will be a standard assignment in advanced courses on nineteenth-century Europe." James F. Harris, Central European History
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In this second edition, Jonathan Sperber has updated and expanded his study of the European Revolutions that brought millions of people across the European continent into political life between 1848 1851. The book offers an inclusive narrative of the revolutionary events and a structural analysis of the reasons for the revolutions' ultimate failure. A wide-reaching conclusion and a detailed bibliography make the book ideal both for classroom use and for a general reader wishing a better knowledge of this major historical event.
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Time for a change of orthodoxy?,
This review is from: The European Revolutions, 1848 - 1851 (New Approaches to European History) (Paperback)
Sperber's book is impeccable as a bird's eye view of the 1848 revolutions. It is probably the most up-to-date general work on the subject. The book has considerable background on the restoration or `pre-March' period, without which the events of 1848 are meaningless. And it marries social and economic with political history, providing a coherent narrative (or narratives) alongside anecdotes of revolutionary experience and a description of the revolutions at ground level. Finally, Sperber provides a chronology, something which, useful in most history books, is essential to follow the tumultuous flow of 1848-49.
That said, I was mildly disappointed that this remains a recycling of the same used, mainstream views (after all, the book belongs to the New Approaches to European History collection). Because the revolutions were seen as a major missed opportunity by guilt-ridden German historians, and because of the weight of Marxist writing (the Communist Manifesto was issued in 1848 - you may know that already) portraying the radicals as the only `true' revolutionaries, 1848 has long been the subject of a dominantly leftist reading. This reading contains limited consideration of the revolutions as an originally liberal movement, or of the socially conservative dimension of the nationalist programs, and it attributes a debatable continuity between these and the second-round, radical uprisings. Apologies if this is long-winded. I know of no general work that takes a less pro-radical angle. For Prussia and Austria-Hungary, Christopher Clark (The Iron Kingdom 1600-1947) and C.A. Macartney (The Habsburg Empire 1790-1918) respectively have good chapters on the subject, and Ginsborg is worth reading on Manin and the Venetian exotica.
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A well researched and excellently written take on this perio,
By Jeff Williams (Clinton, NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The European Revolutions, 1848-1851 (New Approaches to European History) (Paperback)
Not only is this an extremely informative title, but it does something virtually unheard of in a scholarly text: make the reader laugh. While providing all the essentials that one desires in an history, Sperber has a great knack for the telling (and often comic) details of history that make it so much fun to read.
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