Revolutionary Spring

Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848–1849 is a book written by Christopher Clark and published by the Crown Books division of Penguin Random House in 2023. It explores the history of the European revolutions of 1848.

Structure

Work begins with an introduction by the author and is followed by nine chapters and a conclusion plus appendices and indexes.

1. Introduction
2. Social Questions
3. Conjecture of Order
4. Confrontation
5. Detonations
6. Regime Change
7. Emancipations
8. Entropy
9. Counter-revolution
10. After 1848
11. Conclusion

Reviews

• Green, A. (2023), "A panoramic account of the continent-wide outbreak of revolutions in 1848", The Times Literary Supplement, retrieved 17 July 2023
• Heffer, S. (2023), "The link between French revolutionaries, Italian rebels – and Brexiteers", The Telegraph, retrieved 17 July 2023
• Malik, K. (2023), "Revolutionary Spring by Christopher Clark review – the revolts that reshaped Europe", The Guardian, retrieved 17 July 2023
• Sandbrook, D. (2023), "Revolutionary Spring by Christopher Clark review — what can 1848 teach us?", The Times, retrieved 17 July 2023
• Zevin, A. (2023), "The Only Revolutions That Matter", The New York Times, retrieved 17 July 2023
• "Revolutionary Spring — how 1848 shaped the modern world", The Financial Times, 2023, retrieved 17 July 2023
• Sebestyen, V. (2023), "When nationalism was woke", The Critic, retrieved 17 July 2023
• ""Revolutionary Spring" brings to life the drama and daring of 1848", The Economist, retrieved 17 July 2023
• "The Revolutions of 1848 Should Be a Historical Touchstone for Socialists Today", The Jacobin, retrieved 17 July 2023

Publication history

• Hardcover and ebook: Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848–1849. Crown Publishing Group. 2023.
• Audiobook: Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848–1849. Penguin Random House Audio. 2023.

About the author

Sir Christopher Munro Clark (born 14 March 1960) is an Australian historian living in the United Kingdom and Germany. He is the twenty-second Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge. In the 2015 Birthday Honours, he was knighted for his services to Anglo-German relations.

Similar or related works

• The Pursuit of Power by Richard J. Evans
• The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848 by Eric Hobsbawm

See also

• French Revolution of 1848
• German revolutions of 1848–1849
• Hungarian Revolution of 1848
• Sicilian revolution of 1848
• Revolutions of 1848 in the Italian states
• Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire
• Moldavian Revolution of 1848
• Wallachian Revolution of 1848

References

External links

• Christopher Clark: The 1848 Revolutions
• Publisher page: Penguin Random House