1848: Year of Revolution by Mike Rapport

The revolutions that shook nineteenth-century Europe

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In 1848, rebellion erupted across Europe with extraordinary speed, challenging monarchies, empires and established social orders. Mike Rapport traces the upheavals from Paris and Vienna to Berlin, Budapest, Milan and beyond, showing how demands for liberty, national independence and political reform drew together workers, intellectuals, students and citizens. He follows the hopes, divisions and violent reversals that defined the revolutionary year while placing individual experiences within a continent-wide crisis. Vivid and wide-ranging, this history explains why the revolutions failed in the short term yet transformed European politics for generations.