Nobody emerged from 1848 unscathed. The Revolutions of 1848 were shocking but hardly unexpected. Hunger lashed the mid-1840s with a doubly deadly grain and potato crisis (Clark’s ancestors were ...

A new history by Christopher Clark on the 1848 revolutions. In the final pages of Revolutionary Spring, the historian Christopher Clark writes that “the revolutions of 1848 seemed as old as ...

After the revolutions of 1848, liberals helped create a conservative international order that has shaped the world since. By Samuel Moyn Liberals today are being shamed, once again, by their ...

The reaction from most of my friends, as I urged them to take on Christopher Clark’s massive and revelatory history of the revolutions of 1848, was almost universally consistent. “1848?

Neither do the revolutions’ global dimensions escape Clark’s gaze. He even informs us that 1848, in the words of one Latin American author and politician, “produced a powerful echo in Chile”.

Fareed Zakaria, a CNN host, a Washington Post columnist and a veteran foreign policy observer, has written a new book that examines how revolutions – past and present – often provoke backlash.