While the motto of the French revolution was “liberty ... It was then reinstated by Napoleon in 1802 and abolished again in 1848. Less well known than the storming of the Bastille, are the ...
The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...
It is not great individuals, but mass action which drives history, argues Dominic Alexander in a series on the Great ...
It has trickled down through history thirdhand, first appearing in a footnote to a study of Flaubert by the scholar René ...
Orlando Reade’s fascinating history of John Milton’s epic shows that Paradise Lost may still be a poem for our times, writes ...
In 1789 occurred the great French Revolution, the forerunner of two later ... A series of revolts, centering in 1830 and 1848, drove the Turks from Greece, overturned or strove to overturn ...
A leader of the French Revolution of 1848, Alexandre-August Ledru-Rollin, articulated the reality best when he said, "There ...
On December 2, 1851, Louis Bonaparte, a nephew of the long-dead Napoleon, seized the reins of the French state and declared ...
His other interests include the revolution of 1848 at the local level and struggles between state ... three sequential surveys together covering Europe since 1600, focused courses on the French ...
Drawing on a wide range of archival and published documents, this book explains how the French Revolution ... of counter-revolution after 1815 in establishing a stable, durable state, capable of ...
For museums and their public, Impressionism is the Goldilocks movement: not too old or too new, not too challenging or too ...
A new exhibition that documents the impact of the Industrial Revolution features several 1800s artists, writers and thinkers ...