Rhineland Radicals: The Democratic Movement and the Revolution of 1848-1849.

Journal of European Studies | September 1, 1993| | Copyright

There are, broadly speaking, three main interpretations of the 1848 revolution in Germany: as a revolution which aimed to bring about national unity; as a social conflict or class war; and, finally, as a modernization crisis. On each account the revolution failed and on each account radical democrats played a marginal role. This spectrum of negative views is now challenged by Jonathan Sperber's excellent study of the revolution in the Rhineland.

Sperber argues that concentration on 'national' perspectives obscures the issues which generated and fuelled the ...

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