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326: The Year of Revolutions: 1848
The Rest Is History
Revolutionary Spring Fighting for a New World
Sir Christopher Clark is the Regis Professor of History. He has written a groundbreaking study, Revolutionary Spring fighting for a new world in 1848 and 1849. The book argues that asking whether revolutions succeed or fail is a nonsense question. A revolution doesn't actually have an intention. It has thousands of intentions. So it makes more sense to think of the revolution as a process. Everything fell into this chamber under conditions of extreme density and pressure. And then these entities showered out the other end of the process into the rest of the 19th century. But everything was changed. No one was the same shape. Some things disappeared, others appeared. That's the way I like to think.
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