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The Revolutionary Tinderbox
Europe in the 1840s is a revolutionary tinderbox for lots of different reasons. A lot of people are under very high levels of social and economic stress. Short term disruptions to the food supply can push people over the edge, into real crisis. There's immense diversity of left-wing thinking about how to live a better life. And then there are liberals who want to somehow balance authoritarian structures like absolute monarchy with parliament.