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Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849

Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 by Amazonundefined

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There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848. Almost 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 p
Recenzja
Magnificent, authoritative and deeply-researched...
a supreme work of scholarship.
-- Simon Heffer
The Telegraph
Clark has achieved the impossible
: a synoptic history of a subject which defies synopsis... this is history on an epic scale... a masterpiece and
one of the best history books you will read this decade.
-- Jonathan Boff
History Today
Refreshingly original... it's
fascinating, suspenseful, revelatory, alive
. Familiar characters are given vibrancy and previously unknown players emerge from the shadows.. Clark's prose is beautiful but also crystal clear -- Gerard de Groot
The Times
Magnificent
... does a remarkable job weaving together the myriad strands that make up the narrative, allowing us to see the events in granular detail and with synoptic, Europe-wide vision. -- Kenan Malik
Observer
Full of characters, colour and story, but also makes the arresting case that the revolutions ... changed Europe and the world in ways felt to this day...
the history teacher you wished you'd had.
-- Jonathan Freedland
Daily Mail
A marvel of research and analysis
. No corner of Europe, from the Ukrainian borderlands to the Greek islands, escapes his gaze.. a titanic monument to historical scholarship. -- Dominic Sandbrook
Sunday Times
Exhilarating, heroic, horrifying and tragic
, the events of the mid-19th century in Europe invite a good retelling ... Christopher Clark's new book is, arguably, the best to date ... deeply researched, rich, engaging and though-provoking.
There is now no better place to turn for readers who want to immerse themselves in this period and to reflect on how it resonates today.
-- Mike Rapport
Literary Review
Thrills with unexpected energy ... this is narrative history in the grand style ... superb. -- Abigail Green
Times Literary Supplement
An engrossing dissection of a revolutionary year in European society.
The Independent
Scintillating
... [a] magnificent chronicle of the events leading up to and beyond 1848 ... he tackles the complexity by giving sufficient space to the often thrilling stories of every uprising
.
Economist
Magnificent ... Sophisticated analysis and beautiful prose
... The author vividly depicts a Europe grasping toward the future. -- Michael F. Bishop
Wall Street Journal
Combines over-arching analysis and explanation with a ground-level reporters skill at narrating events and capturing character with vividness and compassion
a historian working at the height of his powers.
-- Michael Ignatieff
CEU Review of Books
Opis z tylnej okładki książki
There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848. Almost 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 p
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Christopher Clark
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