"As history, the uprisings of 1848 have long been overshadowed by the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian revolutions of the early twentieth century. And yet in 1848 nearly all of Europe was aflame with conflict. Parallel political tumults spread like brush fire across the entire continent, leading to significant changes that continue to shape our world today. These battles for the future were fought with one eye kept squarely on the past: The men and women of 1848 saw the urgent challenges of their world as shaped profoundly by the past, and saw themselves as inheritors of a revolutionary tradition"-- Provided by publisher.

"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House, London."

Social questions -- Conjectures of order -- Confrontation -- Detonations -- Regime change -- Emancipations -- Entropy -- Counter-revolution -- After 1848.