What’s the best way to build a barricade? A carriage or wagon is a good start, heaved over to form a sturdy base. Next: Peel up the street cobbles and stack them any which way—so long as the bulwark ...

The reaction from most of my friends, as I urged them to take on Christopher Clark’s massive and revelatory history of the revolutions of 1848, was almost universally consistent. “1848? What happened ...

In 1848, inspired by the wave of revolutions sweeping Europe, Hungarians rose against Habsburg rule demanding independence, a ...

The 3 August 1848 issue of the New Era of Industry (Vol. 1 No. 9). The Voice of Industry (Vol. 3 No. 37 - 24 March 1848) The 24 March 1848 issue of the Voice of Industry (Vol. 3 No. 37). This is a ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The National Assembly that met in May 1848 in Frankfurt's St. Paul's Church failed in its attempt to establish a German nation-state. But on the 175th anniversary, there are calls to commemorate it as ...

An article about the impact of the 1848 Revolution in France on its colonial possession of Senegal and the limits of freedom reform by decree, and the right to vote. The 1848 revolution marked a ...

“All governments face insoluble problems — that is what governments are for. It is in the nature of political problems that they cannot be ‘solved’.” This quote could refer to climate change, the war ...