Rhineland Radicals: The Democratic Movement and the Revolution of 1848-1849 - Paperback

by Jonathan Sperber (Author)

This major interpretation of the Revolution of 1848-1849 in Germany stresses its character as a mass political phenomenon. Building skillfully on the theme of the interaction of self-conscious radicalism and spontaneous popular movements, Jonathan Sperber analyzes the social and religious antagonisms of pre-1848 German society and shows how they were politicized by the democratic political opposition.

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"One of the most important books on modern German history to emerge from the United States recently and probably the most important to emerge on the pre-Bismarck era."--Geoff Eley, University of Michigan

Author Biography

Jonathan Sperber is Associate Professor of History at the University of Missouri. His book Popular Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Princeton) won the Herbert Baxter Adams prize of the American Historical Association.