The German Revolution of 1848-49

by Wolfram Siemann, Christiane Banerji (Translator)

Finally available in English to coincide with the 150th anniversary, this highly original study of the German Revolution of 1848-49 examines the "failure" of the revolution, its repression and the attempts to come to terms with this repression. Wolfram Siemann's analysis centers on the contradictory forms of collective protest, the tensions in the social, agrarian and commercial spheres, the nature of the crisis cycles of the Vormarz period, the different stages of development in individual German territories, and the regional centers of industrialization and politicization. It is against this backdrop that the "failure" of the revolution is put into perspective.

Genres: History, Germany

260 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1998

About the author

Wolfram Siemann, one of Germany’s leading historians of the nineteenth century, is Professor Emeritus for Modern and Contemporary History at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

Reviews

[Emmanuel-francis]

Short and dense. Informative in parts but it requires an in-depth knowledge of the period and, likely, reads better in its original German.

[Thoregon]

gegen Demokraten helfen nur Soldaten