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

Sperber, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691008663 ISBN 13: 9780691008660

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1992

Synopsis

This major interpretation of the Revolution of 1848-1849 in Germany stresses its character as a mass political phenomenon. Building skillfully on the theme of the interaction of self-conscious radicalism and spontaneous popular movements, Jonathan Sperber analyzes the social and religious antagonisms of pre-1848 German society and shows how they were politicized by the democratic political opposition.

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Review:

"One of the most important books on modern German history to emerge from the United States recently and probably the most important to emerge on the pre-Bismarck era."--Geoff Eley, University of Michigan

"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1992"

"Rhineland Radicals displays clearly the same scholarly virtues that made Sperber's first book, Popular Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Germany (1984), such an impressive achievement. The research is thorough, the writing uniformly clear and graceful, the analysis powerful and persuasive."---James J. Sheehan, The Times Literary Supplement

"A substantial work.... One of its strengths lies in the detailed description of economic and social conditions in the pre-1848 period as background to events during the revolution."--American Historical Review

About the Author:

Jonathan Sperber is Associate Professor of History at the University of Missouri. His book Popular Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Princeton) won the Herbert Baxter Adams prize of the American Historical Association.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0691008663
• ISBN 13: 9780691008660
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 548