A short article about the conditions of peasants on the Italian peninsular in the 1840s and their agitation and what this meant for the Italian revolutions of 1848. Peasant Agitation in Italy, 1848-49 ...
The similarities between the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt last spring and the ones in Europe in 1848 are striking. In the early months of 1848, the sclerotic and reactionary political systems that ...
A new history by Christopher Clark on the 1848 revolutions. In the final pages of Revolutionary Spring, the historian Christopher Clark writes that “the revolutions of 1848 seemed as old as ancient ...
In 1848, Europe was engulfed by a wave of revolutions unlike anything before. Liberals, nationalists, and workers challenged monarchies and old empires simultaneously. This video explains why unrest ...