The German Revolution of 1848-49

Download or read book The German Revolution of 1848-49 written by Wolfram Siemann and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-10-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.