What’s the best way to build a barricade? A carriage or wagon is a good start, heaved over to form a sturdy base. Next: Peel up the street cobbles and stack them any which way—so long as the bulwark ...

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 ...

A new history by Christopher Clark on the 1848 revolutions. In the final pages of Revolutionary Spring, the historian Christopher Clark writes that “the revolutions of 1848 seemed as old as ancient ...

During the last years of the July Monarchy the institution of French colonial slavery seemed to be weakening on several fronts. In 1845 the Soult-Guizot Cabinet passed legislation intended to prepare ...

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The National Assembly that met in May 1848 in Frankfurt's St. Paul's Church failed in its attempt to establish a German nation-state. But on the 175th anniversary, there are calls to commemorate it as ...

The reaction from most of my friends, as I urged them to take on Christopher Clark’s massive and revelatory history of the revolutions of 1848, was almost universally consistent. “1848? What happened ...