This review of Christopher Clark’s Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 was published in the Observer on 7 May 2023 “We are standing at a turning point in Europe’s fortunes”, warned the Prussian diplomat Joseph von Radowitz in February 1848. He was speaking of the year in which revolution spread through Europe at startling speed. In January, Sicily erupted in revolt against the Bourbon king Ferdinand II. Six weeks later, an insurrection in Paris overthrew the French king […]

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