Rhineland Radicals – Democratic Movement & Revolution 1848–49: The Democratic Movement and the Revolution of 1848-1849 - Hardcover

Sperber, J

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9780691031729: Rhineland Radicals – Democratic Movement & Revolution 1848–49: The Democratic Movement and the Revolution of 1848-1849

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ISBN 10: 069103172X ISBN 13: 9780691031729

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1992

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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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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

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"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

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