Andrew’s Reviews > The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848 > Status Update

Maybe I sit here from my 21st century vantage point but I have to ask myself. How could it not be evident that a revolution could be exported or that peoples are different than their rulers? I feel like Hobsbawm doesn’t really address or set up any proof suggesting that this was something that had to be found out. I’m unless I understood the chapter incorrectly.