The 1848 Revolutions and European Political Thought

The 1848 Revolutions in Europe that marked a turning-point in the history of political thought are examined here in a pan-European perspective. The Revolutions That Swept Across Europe In 1848 Marked A Turning-point In The History Of Political And Social Thought. They Raised Questions Of Democracy, Nationhood, Freedom And Social Cohesion That Have Remained Among The Key Issues Of Modern Politics, And Still Help To Define The Major Ideological Currents - Liberalism, Socialism, Republicanism, Anarchism, Conservatism - In Which These Questions Continue To Be Debated Today. This Collection Of Essays By Internationally Prominent Historians Of Political Thought Examines The 1848 Revolutions In A Pan-european Perspective, And Offers Research On Questions Of State Power, Nationality, Religion, The Economy, Poverty, Labour, And Freedom. Even Where The Revolutionary Movements Failed To Achieve Their Explicit Objectives Of Transforming The State And Social Relations, They Set The Agenda For Subsequent Regimes, And Contributed To The Shaping Of Modern European Thought And Institutions. Lamartine, The Girondins And 1848 / Jonathan Beecher -- The Many Revolutions Of Pierre-joseph Proudhon / Edward Castleton -- French Republicanism After 1848 / Thomas C. Jones -- Socialist Visions Of Direct Democracy : The Mid-century Crisis Of Popular Sovereignty, And The Constitutional Legacy Of The Jacobins / Anne-sophie Chambost -- Working-class Socialism In 1848 In France / Samuel Hayat -- 1848 And British Political Thought On 'the Principle Of Nationality' / Georgios Varouxakis -- Christian Socialism, Class Collaboration And British Public Life After 1848 / Jonathan Parry -- On The 'absence Of Spirit' : The Legacy Of The Abstinence From Revolution In Belgium / Widukind De Ridder -- German Republicans And Socialists In The Prelude To 1848 / Douglas Moggach -- David Friedrich Strauss In 1848 : An Analysis Of His 'theologico-political' Speeches / Norbert Waszek -- 1848 And German Socialism / Diana Siclovan -- Post-revolutionary Politics : The Case Of The Prussian Ministry Of State / Anna Ross -- 'the Goal Of That Pure And Noble Yearning' : Friedrich Meinecke's Visions Of 1848 / Duncan Kelly -- The Nationality Problem In The Habsburg Monarchy And The Revolutions Of 1848 : A Reassessment / Alan Sked -- National Movements Against Nation States : Bohemia And Lombardy Between The Habsburg Empire, The German Confederation And Piedmont / Axel Korner -- The Political Thought Of A New Constitutional Monarchy : Piedmont After 1848 / Maurizio Isabella -- Revolution, Socialism, And The Slavic Question : 1848 And Michael Bakunin / Jean-christophe Angaut -- Elusive Signifiers : 1848 And The Language Of 'class Struggle' / Gareth Stedman Jones. Edited By Douglas Moggach, Gareth Stedman Jones. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover 1 Half-title page 3 Title page 5 Copyright page 6 Contents 7 List of Contributors 9 Acknowledgements 11 Introduction 13 1 Lamartine, the Girondins, and 1848 26 2 The Many Revolutions of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 51 3 French Republicanism after 1848 82 4 Socialist Visions of Direct Democracy: The Mid-Century Crisis of Popular Sovereignty and the Constitutional Legacy of the Jacobins 106 5 Working-Class Socialism in 1848 in France 132 6 1848 and British Political Thought on ‘The Principle of Nationality’ 152 7 Christian Socialism, Class Collaboration, and British Public Life after 18481 174 8 On the ‘Absence of Spirit’: The Legacy of the Abstinence from Revolution in Belgium 197 9 German Republicans and Socialists in the Prelude to 1848 228 10 David Friedrich Strauss in 1848: An Analysis of His ‘Theologicopolitical Speeches’ 248 11 1848 and German Socialism 266 12 Post-Revolutionary Politics: The Case of the Prussian Ministry of State 288 13 ‘The Goal of That Pure and Noble Yearning’: Friedrich Meinecke’s Visions of 1848 305 14 The Nationality Problem in the Habsburg Monarchy and the Revolutions of 1848: A Reassessment 334 15 National Movements against Nation States: Bohemia and Lombardy between the Habsburg Monarchy, the German Confederation, and Piedmont-Sardinia 357 16 The Political Thought of a New Constitutional Monarchy: Piedmont after 1848 395 17 Revolution and the Slav Question: 1848 and Mikhail Bakunin 417 18 Elusive Signifiers: 1848 and the Language of ‘Class Struggle’ 441 Index 464