Full name: 1848: Year Of Revolution

Author: Mike Rapport Year: 2008 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Culture: France Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads LibraryThing Amazon ISBNs: 9780465020676 0465020674

In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. The torrent all but swept away the conservative order that had kept peace on the continent since Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815--but which in many countries had also suppressed dreams of national freedom. Political events so dramatic had not been seen in Europe since the French Revolution, and they would not be witnessed again until 1989, with the revolutions in Eastern and Central Europe.In 1848, historian Mike Rapport examines the roots of the ferment and then, with breathtaking pace, chronicles the explosive spread of violence across Europe. A vivid narrative of a complex chain of interconnected revolutions, 1848 tells the exhilarating story of Europe's violent "Spring of Nations" and traces its reverberations to the present day. Similar books: The Napoleonic Wars by Mike Rapport The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914 by Richard J. Evans Europe by Norman Davies Vanished Kingdoms by Norman Davies Early Modern Europe by Euan Cameron Dark Continent by Mark Mazower A History In Fragments by Richard Vinen The Pursuit of Glory by Tim Blanning Vienna, 1814 by David King The Vertigo Years by Philipp Blom Central Europe by Lonnie Johnson Postwar by Tony Judt The Age of Revolution by Eric Hobsbawm The Thirty Years War by Peter H. Wilson Europe Divided 1559-1598 by J. H. Elliott Schnitzler's Century by Peter Gay The Hundred Years War by Desmond Seward The Essence of Style by Joan Dejean The Conquest of the Sahara by Douglas Porch Notre-Dame by Ken Follett