The European Revolutions, 1848–1851
2nd Edition
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Part of New Approaches to European History
- Author: Jonathan Sperber, University of Missouri, Columbia
- Date Published: July 2005
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521547796
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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.
Read more- First edition widely praised as single best general history of the 1848 revolutions
- This student textbook introduces in an accessible manner the entire history of the 1848–1851 revolutions
- Draws on the very latest scholarship
Reviews & endorsements
"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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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: July 2005
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521547796
- length: 334 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 154 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.54kg
- contains: 6 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Society and social conflict in Europe during the 1840s
2. The pre-revolutionary political universe
3. The outbreak of revolution
4. Varieties of revolutionary experience
5. Polarization and confrontation
6. The mid-century revolutions in European history.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Age of Revolutions
- Colloquium in European history
- Europe in the Age of Revolutions
- Europe in the Nineteenth Century
- Europe, 1789-1914
- European Colloquium
- Modern Europe 1800 to present
- Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850
- Topics in European History: "The Revolutions of 1848"
- Understanding Historical Change: Modern Europe
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