Christopher Clark
- Revolution spring
- Lecture
In the history of Europe, there is no moment more exciting, but also none more frightening, than the spring of 1848. Seemingly out of nowhere, crowds gathered in cities from Palermo to Paris and Venice, peacefully and occasionally violently. The political order that had held everything together since Napoleon’s defeat was collapsing.
Christopher Clark brings to life this extraordinary era in which new political ideas, beliefs, and expectations broke through. The role of women, the end of slavery, the right to work, national independence, and Jewish emancipation – the ideas of 1848 spread around the world and gave birth to a new and very different Europe.
Christopher Clark, born in 1960, teaches modern European history at St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge. His research focuses on the history of Prussia; his book The Sleepwalkers (2013) on the First World War also received much attention.
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