The revolutions that swept across Europe in 1848 marked a turning-point in the history of political and social thought. They raised questions of democracy, nationhood, freedom and social cohesion that ...

Much of Europe went to the barricades in 1848—the first and last truly European revolution there has ever been. This seismic year, documented with panache by Christopher Clark in his ...

The National Assembly that met in May 1848 in Frankfurt's ... the status quo remained in central Europe for the time being. But the events of the German Revolutions had made it clear that the ...