One of the best history books you will read this decade History Today Fascinating suspenseful revelatory alive The TimesThere 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
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Penguin
ISBN: 9780141988313
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 896
Tiempo de lectura:
18h 39m
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 01/01/2024
Año de edición: 2024
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Christopher Clark
Christopher Clark es profesor de Historia Moderna en el College de St Catharine`s, de la Universidad de Cambridge. Es autor de The Politics of Conversion. Missionary Protestantism and the Jews in Prussia, 1728-1941, una biografía del Káiser Guillermo II, y la mundialmente aclamada obra sobre los inicios de la Primera Guerra Mundial, Sonámbulos. Cómo Europa fue a la guerra en 1914.