1848

  1. The Politics of 1848

  2. Artisanate or Proletariat? 

 

Issues for Discussion
  1. What role did left-wing demands play in the uprisings of 1848?

  2. To what extent were working-class demands backward- or forward-looking?

 

Reading:

Secondary -

Lecture Notes on the Year of Revolutions

Theodore Hamerow, "German Artisans in 1848", from Restoration, Revolution, Reaction: Economics and Politics in Germany, 1815-1871 

Rüdiger Hachtmann, "Artisans and Artisan Movements in 1848 (Germany)"

Website on 1848: the Year of Revolutions (very detailed!)

Map of the Revolutions 

 

Questions on your reading:

Theodore Hamerow, "German Artisans in 1848"

  1. What role did factory workers play in the German Revolutions?

  2. What were the demands of protesting artisans and craftsmen?

  3. What was the response of middle-class liberals to these demands?

General Reading 

  1. What were the causes of the revolutions?

  2. Why did the Revolutions fail?

  3. What does the course and the failure of the Revolutions reveal of the nature of middle-class and working-class relations at this time?  And the development of left-wing thinking?

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