{"id":24631,"date":"2023-05-10T09:34:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T07:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=231121"},"modified":"2023-05-10T10:11:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T08:11:35","slug":"why-revolution-engulfed-19th-century-europe","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/why-revolution-engulfed-19th-century-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Why revolution engulfed 19th-century Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Christopher Clark charts the causes and consequences of the wave of revolutions that swept across Europe in the 1840s <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Matt Elton\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 10 May 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>In 1848, a tidal wave of revolution swept across Europe \u2013 from Sicily to Paris, Berlin to Vienna. But what sparked this cascade of unrest, and how can we explain its apparent synchronicity? Speaking to Matt Elton, Christopher Clark charts the causes of the uprisings, and explores the consequences on the continent in the following decades.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-231121-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/whyrevolutionengulfed19thcenturyeurope-87d7470.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/whyrevolutionengulfed19thcenturyeurope-87d7470.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2023\/05\/whyrevolutionengulfed19thcenturyeurope-87d7470.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Christopher Clark is the author of <em>Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849<\/em> (Penguin, 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/p\/books\/revolutionary-spring-fighting-for-a-new-world-1848-1849-christopher-clark\/7122204?ean=9780241347669&quot;\">Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Revolutionary-Spring-Fighting-World-1848-1849-ebook\/dp\/B0B5K4BM29?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\">Buy now on Amazon<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&amp;xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Frevolutionary-spring%2Fchristopher-clark%2F9780241347669&quot;\">Buy now on Waterstones<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Related links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/victorian\/christopher-clark-1848-revolutions-interview&quot;\">\u201cA dissonant orchestra of ambitions and intentions\u201d | Christopher Clark on the revolutions of 1848<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Christopher Clark charts the causes and consequences of the wave of revolutions that swept across Europe in the 1840s <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":24632,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/05\/why-revolution-engulfed-19th-century-europe.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/05\/why-revolution-engulfed-19th-century-europe-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/05\/why-revolution-engulfed-19th-century-europe-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/05\/why-revolution-engulfed-19th-century-europe.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/05\/why-revolution-engulfed-19th-century-europe.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/05\/why-revolution-engulfed-19th-century-europe.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/05\/why-revolution-engulfed-19th-century-europe.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Christopher Clark charts the causes and consequences of the wave of revolutions that swept across Europe in the 1840s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/24631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}