The Revolutions of 1848 were shocking but hardly unexpected. Hunger lashed the mid-1840s with a doubly deadly grain and potato crisis (Clark’s ancestors were among the many thousands who fled ...

The Revolutions of 1848 were shocking but hardly unexpected. Hunger lashed the mid-1840s with a doubly deadly grain and potato crisis (Clark’s ancestors were among the many thousands who fled ...

The revolutionaries of 1848 had a model on which to base their fight: the French Revolution. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, which the French National Assembly approved in 1789, ...

Artist Tony-Francois de Bergue’s painting of an officer ordering his men to fire at the 1848 revolutionaries in Paris. Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images It is an original take on the ...

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 ...

The Bloody Flag: Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolution Niklas Frykman University of California Press, $32.95 (cloth) The Age of Revolution (1770–1850), bookended by the American and French ...

After the revolutions of 1848, liberals helped create a conservative international order that has shaped the world since. By Samuel Moyn Liberals today are being shamed, once again, by their ...

The revolutions were not a failure of liberals and leftists “to listen to each other,” as Clark writes. Marx did not discount the freedoms sought by liberals in 1848, but he expected that ...

But while the discussions went on in Frankfurt in 1848, the opponents of the revolution were able to mobilize their forces. Even when National Assembly delegate Robert Blum (1807 — 1848) was executed ...