Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century (The Making of Modern Freedom)

By Isser Woloch

Subjects: 1848 revolutions, French revolution reception, Liberty, Revolutions, History, British Reform Act of 1832, conservatives and liberals, Constitutional history

Description: This book surveys the various responses to the French Revolution of 1789-1799 in Europe, Britain, Latin America, and Russia. Themes include the establishment of parliaments and constitutions, associational and press freedoms, and the regional wave of counter-revolutuons to the 1848 “springtime of the peoples.”