An edition of Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century (The Making of Modern Freedom) (2000)
Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century (The Making of Modern Freedom)
By Isser Woloch
Publish Date
December 18, 2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Language
eng
Pages
464
Description:
This book surveys the various responses to the French Revolution of 1789-1799 in Europe, Britain, Latin America, and Russia. Themes include the establishment of parliaments and constitutions, associational and press freedoms, and the regional wave of counter-revolutuons to the 1848 “springtime of the peoples.”
subjects: French revolution reception, 1848 revolutions, British Reform Act of 1832, conservatives and liberals, Revolutions, Constitutional history, Liberty, History
People: Napoleon Bonaparte, Simon Bolivar, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Karl Marx (1818-1883)
Places: Paris, Frankfurt, Vienna, London, Berlin, Cadiz, Naples