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 Empress is based on the collapse of the Austrian Empire, marked by internal strife, war from outside, and the subsequent ...

The revolutions that swept across Europe in 1848 marked a turning-point in the history of political and social thought. They raised questions of democracy, nationhood, freedom and social cohesion 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 ...