Rhineland Radicals: The Democratic Movement and the Revolution of 1848-1849
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Rhineland Radicals: The Democratic Movement and the Revolution of 1848-1849
By (Author) Jonathan Sperber
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
2nd March 1993
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Revolutionary groups and movements
Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions
Political structures: democracy
322.4209434
Runner-up for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1992
Physical Properties
Paperback
550
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
794g
Description
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.
Reviews
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
Author Bio
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.
