{"id":16567,"date":"2023-08-17T17:07:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T15:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=16567"},"modified":"2023-08-28T09:34:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T07:34:11","slug":"1848","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=16567","title":{"rendered":"In the Spring of ’48"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Christopher Clark<\/a> has a new book. As I have read and enjoyed two of his previous works ( Iron Kingdom<\/a><\/em> on the rise and fall of the Prussians, and The Sleepwalk<\/em>ers<\/a> which offers a new perspective of how World War One was sought of stumbled into), I will certainly be reading Clark’s newest tome, Revolutionary Spring<\/a><\/em>. The things that were going down in 1848! And at 876 pages, a tome it is! Not alone for that reason, also owing to an extreme backlog of reading material, I fear I will not be getting to it for a while. But Clark’s stuff, however wonderfully written, is dense in subject matter so it is best to be prepared. To this end, here are a pair of links that will encourage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Firstly, the best primer is probably Christopher Clark’s LRB<\/em> Winter Lecture in February 2019 – embedded below; and transcribed in the magazine a couple of weeks later as “Why should we think about the Revolutions of 1848 now?”<\/a> perhaps not verbatim but close to in Vol. 41 No. 5 \u00b7 7 March 2019<\/a>. (I certainly am going to have another look at this!)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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