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The 1848 Revolutions and European Political Thought
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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 have remained among the key issues of modern politics, and still help to define the major ideological currents - liberalism, socialism, republicanism, anarchism, conservatism - in which these questions continue to be debated today. This collection of essays by internationally prominent historians of political thought examines the 1848 Revolutions in a pan-European perspective, and offers research on questions of state power, nationality, religion, the economy, poverty, labour, and freedom. Even where the revolutionary movements failed to achieve their explicit objectives of transforming the state and social relations, they set the agenda for subsequent regimes, and contributed to the shaping of modern European thought and institutions.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Lamartine, the Girondins, and 1848
- 2 The Many Revolutions of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
- 3 French Republicanism after 1848
- 4 Socialist Visions of Direct Democracy: The Mid-Century Crisis of Popular Sovereignty and the Constitutional Legacy of the Jacobins
- 5 Working-Class Socialism in 1848 in France
- 6 1848 and British Political Thought on âThe Principle of Nationalityâ
- 7 Christian Socialism, Class Collaboration, and British Public Life after 18481
- 8 On the âAbsence of Spiritâ: The Legacy of the Abstinence from Revolution in Belgium
- 9 German Republicans and Socialists in the Prelude to 1848
- 10 David Friedrich Strauss in 1848: An Analysis of His âTheologicopolitical Speechesâ
- 11 1848 and German Socialism
- 12 Post-Revolutionary Politics: The Case of the Prussian Ministry of State
- 13 âThe Goal of That Pure and Noble Yearningâ: Friedrich Meineckeâs Visions of 1848
- 14 The Nationality Problem in the Habsburg Monarchy and the Revolutions of 1848: A Reassessment
- 15 National Movements against Nation States: Bohemia and Lombardy between the Habsburg Monarchy, the German Confederation, and Piedmont-Sardinia
- 16 The Political Thought of a New Constitutional Monarchy: Piedmont after 1848
- 17 Revolution and the Slav Question: 1848 and Mikhail Bakunin
- 18 Elusive Signifiers: 1848 and the Language of âClass Struggleâ
- Index