Certain years in European history — 1789, 1914 and 1989 among them — mark major inflection points, where history that had seemed to be going in one direction suddenly veered off into another. 1848, by ...

ON February 22, 1848, Richard Rush, the American Minister to the Court of the Tuileries, noted in his diary that he had just returned from a soirée at the Roche-foucaulds'. The party was not large but ...

This first volume of a new series, The Oxford History of Modern Europe, deals with the external relations of the European Great Powers from the Revolution of 1848 to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and ...

In 1848, before the age of the 'new imperialism', France already claimed an overseas empire extending from the Americas to Africa and the Indian Ocean. The sole North American possession France ...

The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars devastated Europe, but the three decades following the defeat and exile of Bonaparte in 1815 were marked by relative calm, as monarchs across Europe ...

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At a time of seemingly uncontrollable environmental, geopolitical, and economic crises, the revolutionary wave that swept Europe in 1848 has much to teach us. It, too, revealed the chaotic potential ...

In 1848, Europe erupted in revolution. From Paris to Vienna, workers, students, and nationalists rose up—only to face brutal backlash and betrayal. Trump Makes Major Announcement on Mail-In Voting Mom ...

History of the origins of the Communist League and its actions and influence during the 1848 revolutions in the German states and Europe. For decades controversy over the role played by the Communist ...

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