In fact, it comes from the introduction to a book about the European revolutions of 1848. In the last few weeks, quite a lot of people—myself included—have drawn parallels between the crowds ...

What’s the best way to build a barricade? A carriage or wagon is a good start, heaved over to form a sturdy base. Next: Peel up the street cobbles and stack them any which way—so long as the ...

Epic History Europe Ablaze The 1848 Revolutions Posted: December 12, 2024 | Last updated: March 5, 2025 This is the story of the 1848 European revolutions, one of the most dramatic and significant ...

but they may look more like the European revolutions of 1848. As University of Missouri professor Jonathan Sperber tells Guy Raz, 1848 — like the modern Middle East — saw a wave of working ...

1848, by contrast, was a turning point that failed to turn. The wave of revolutions that swept across most of the Continent early that year, promising to rid Europe of absolutism and the vestiges ...

From "My Autobiography." Max Muller. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s ...

The reaction from most of my friends, as I urged them to take on Christopher Clark’s massive and revelatory history of the revolutions of 1848, was almost universally consistent. “1848?