A Shower of Sparks.

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  • Author(s): BELL, DAVID A. (AUTHOR)
  • Source:
    Nation. 11/13/2023, Vol. 317 Issue 10, p38-41. 4p. 1 Color Photograph, 1 Cartoon or Caricature.
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    • Subject Terms:
      UNITED States Capitol Insurrection, 2021; POLITICAL participation; TIANANMEN Square Massacre, China, 1989
    • Abstract:
      BOOKS & the ARTS IN THE FINAL PAGES OF REVOLUTIONARY SPRING, THE historian Christopher Clark writes that "the revolutions of 1848 seemed as old as ancient Egypt when I learned about them at school." And the similarities that Clark points to are overshadowed by one very great difference: the almost unlimited faith that the people of 1848 put in the idea of revolution itself. Clark also points to a similar "euphoria" that gripped revolutionary crowds throughout Europe, especially in the cities. Ruling elites also cooperated across borders, notably in the suppression of the last great revolution of the period, in Rome, by a France now presided over by Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, soon to be Emperor Napoleon III. [Extracted from the article]
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