The 1848 Revolutions and European Political Thought

Introduction; 1. Lamartine, the Girondins and 1848 Jonathan Beecher; 2. The many revolutions of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Edward Castleton; 3. French republicanism after 1848 Thomas C. Jones; 4. Socialist visions of direct democracy: the mid-century crisis of popular sovereignty, and the constitutional legacy of the Jacobins Anne-Sophie Chambost; 5. Working-class socialism in 1848 in France Samuel Hayat; 6. 1848 and British political thought on 'the principle of nationality' Georgios Varouxakis; 7. Christian socialism, class collaboration and British public life after 1848 Jonathan Parry; 8. On the 'absence of spirit': the legacy of the abstinence from revolution in Belgium Widukind De Ridder; 9. German republicans and socialists in the prelude to 1848 Douglas Moggach; 10. David Friedrich Strauss in 1848: an analysis of his 'theologico-political' speeches Norbert Waszek; 11. 1848 and German socialism Diana Siclovan; 12. Post-revolutionary politics: the case of the Prussian Ministry of State Anna Ross; 13. 'The goal of that pure and noble yearning': Friedrich Meinecke's visions of 1848 Duncan Kelly; 14. The nationality problem in the Habsburg monarchy and the revolutions of 1848: a reassessment Alan Sked; 15. National movements against nation states. Bohemia and Lombardy between the Habsburg empire, the German Confederation and Piedmont Axel Koerner; 16. The political thought of a new constitutional monarchy: Piedmont after 1848 Maurizio Isabella; 17. Revolution, socialism, and the Slavic question: 1848 and Michael Bakunin Jean-Christophe Angaut; 18. Elusive signifiers: 1848 and the language of 'class struggle' Gareth Stedman Jones.