TY  - JOUR
A1  - Fahrmeir, Andreas
T1  - 1848–yet again? : [Rezension zu:] Mike Rapport. 1848: Year of Revolution. New York: Basic Books, 2009. xvi + 461 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-465-01436-1
T2  - H-net reviews, H-German
N2  - Mike Rapport is one of the few scholars who write European history not as the history of a few select countries, but of the entire continent. Rapport is at home in the history of the Balkans as well as France, Italy, Germany, Russia, and Scandinavia, and well versed in the historiography published in English, French, and Italian. Rapport's well-rounded viewpoint is one excellent argument for anyone suffering from "1848 fatigue" after the sesquicentennial celebrations and their aftermath in conference volumes and historiographical reviews to put aside any skepticism regarding the possibility of anyone presenting a novel perspective; the book itself is another. In it, Rapport offers a narrative history of the events of 1848 in those European countries and regions affected directly by the revolution--France, Italy, the German states, Denmark, and Rumania--with some remarks on areas where the impact was more indirect (Britain, Russia, the Ottoman Empire, and Scandinavia). This book is less obviously an academic textbook than Jonathan Sperber's excellent survey of the revolutions of 1848, and less encyclopedic than the survey of national events and overarching themes edited by Dieter Dowe and others for the 1998 anniversary. ...
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51291
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-512919
UR  - https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=25808
SN  - 1538-0661
N1  - This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
VL  - 2010
IS  - Art. 25808
SP  - 1
EP  - 3
PB  - Michigan State University Department of History
CY  - East Lansing, Mich.
ER  -