1848: The Year of Revolutions

by Wilson,Peter H.

• ISBN13: 9780754625698
• ISBN10: 0754625699
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-06-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Europe was swept by a wave of revolution in 1848 that had repercussions stretching well beyond the continent. Governments fell in quick succession or conceded significant reforms, before being rolled back by conservative reaction. Though widely perceived as a failure, the revolution ended the vestiges of feudalism, broadened civil society and strengthened the state prior to the rapid industrialisation and urbanisation of the latter part of the nineteenth century. This volume brings together essays from leading specialists on the international dimension, national experiences, political mobilisation, reaction and legacy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Series Preface	ix
Introduction	xi
PART I INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION
1 Matthias Schulz (2003), 'A Balancing Act: Domestic Pressures and International Systemic Constraints in the Foreign Policies of the Great Powers, 1848-1851', German History, 21, pp. 319-46.	3	(28)
2 Miles Taylor (2000), 'The 1848 Revolutions and the British Empire', Past and Present, 166, pp. 146-80.	31	(38)
PART II NATIONAL EXPERIENCES
3 Henry Weisser (1981), 'Chartism in 1848: Reflections on a Non-Revolution', Albion, 13, pp. 12-26.	69	(16)
4 Daniel R. Headrick (1976), 'Spain and the Revolutions of 1848', European Studies Review, 6, pp. 197-223.	85	(28)
5 H. Hearder (1975), 'The Making of the Roman Republic, 1848-1849', History, 60, pp. 169-84.	113	(16)
6 George Handlery (1972), 'Revolutionary Organization in the Context of Backwardness: Hungary's 1848', East European Quarterly, 6, pp. 44-61.	129	(18)
7 Donald J. Mattheisen (1979), 'Liberal Constitutionalism in the Frankfurt Parliament of 1848: An Inquiry Based on Roll-Call Analysis', Central European History, 12, pp. 124-42.	147	(22)
PART III POLITICAL MOBILIZATION
8 Pamela Pilbeam (1993), 'The Insurrectionary Tradition in France 1835-48', Modern and Contemporary France, 1, pp. 253-64.	169	(12)
9 Paul Ginsborg (1974), 'Peasants and Revolutionaries in Venice and the Veneto, 1848', Historical Journal, 17, 503-50.	181	(48)
10 Carola Lipp and Lothar Krempel (2001), 'Petitions and the Social Context of Political Mobilization in the Revolution of 1848/49: A Microhistorical Actor-Centred Network Analysis', International Review of Social History, 46, pp. 151-69.	229	(20)
11 James M. Brophy (2004), 'Violence Between Civilians and State Authorities in the Prussian Rhineland, 1830-1846', German History, 22, pp. 1-35.	249	(36)
12 Jonathan Sperber (1992), 'Festivals of National Unity in the German Revolution of 1848-1849', Past and Present, 136, pp. 114-38.	285	(26)
13 Stanley Zucker (1980), 'German Women and the Revolution of 1848: Kathinka Zitz-Halein and the Humania Association', Central European History, 13, pp. 237-54.	311	(20)
PART IV COUNTER REVOLUTION AND THE STATE
14 Alf Lüdtke (1979), 'The Role of State Violence in the Period of Transition to Industrial Capitalism: The Example of Prussia from 1815 to 1848', Social History, 4, pp. 175-221.	331	(48)
15 Karl H. Wegert (1991), 'Contention with Civility: The State and Social Control in the German Southwest, 1760-1850', Historical Journal, 34, pp. 349-69.	379	(22)
16 Alan J. Reinerman (1991), 'The Failure of Popular Counter-Revolution in Risorgimento Italy: The Case of the Centurions, 1831-1847', Historical Journal, 34, pp. 21-41.	401	(22)
17 Roger Price (1982), 'Techniques of Repression: The Control of Popular Protest in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France', Historical Journal, 25, pp. 859-87.	423	(30)
18 Istvan Deak (1979), 'An Army Divided: The Loyalty Crisis of the Habsburg Officer Corps in 1848-1849', Jahrbuch des Mstituts für Deutsche Geschichte, 8, pp. 207-41.	453	(38)
PART V LEGACY
19 Guy Thomson (2001), 'Garibaldi and the Legacy of the Revolutions of 1848 in Southern Spain', European History Quarterly. 31, 353-96.	491	(44)
20 Timothy Baycroft (1998), 'Commemorations of the Revolution of 1848 and the Second Republic', Modern and Contemporary France, 6, pp. 155-68.	535	(14)
Name Index	549