AXEL KÖRNER is Lecturer in Modern European History at University College London. After studies in Bonn, Berlin and Lyon he wrote a PhD at the European University Institute in Florence. His publications include Das Lied von einer anderen Welt. Kulturelle Praxis im französischen und deutschen Arbeitermilieu. 1840-1890 (Frankfurt am Main, 1997) and (together with C.Gerbel et al) Urbane Eliten und kultureller Wandel. Bologna, Leipzig, Linz und Ljubljana (Vienna, 1996). He is currently working on a cultural history of Bologna between 1860 and 1920.

Wide range of essays from an international field of writers, including John Breuilly and Reinhart Koselleck

Takes a completely new approach to the 1848 revolution, exploring the dichotomies between the ideals of the revolution and the manner in which it has been commemorated over the last 150 years

Contributes to the current debate concerning history and memory

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors PART I: INTRODUCTION The European Dimension in the Ideas of 1848 and the Nationalization of Its Memories; A.Körner PART II: A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE ON 1848 1848: Connected or Comparable Revolutions?; J.Breuilly Events and Non-Events...Cultural Reflections of and on 1848; M.Swales Did Women Have a Revolution? Gender Battles in the European Revolution of 1848/49; [...] PART III: INTERNATIONALISM AND NATIONALISM IN THE EUROPEAN REVOLUTION Ideas and Memories of 1848 in France: Nationalism, République Universelle and Internationalism in the Goguette between 1848 and 1890; A.Körner National Union or Cosmopolitan Unity? Republican Discourse and the Instrumental Approach towards the German Question; S.Freitag Bohemian Spring 1848 - Conflict of Loyalties and Its Picture in Historiography; J.Havránek PART IV: COMMEMORATIONS OF 1848 IN NATIONAL CONTEXT From Divided Memory to Silence - The 1848 Celebrations in Italy; S.Soldani First Performances - Staging Memories of the French February Revolution; R.[...] 'Nationality Separates, Liberty Unites'? The Historical Commemoration of 1848/49 in Baden, a European Frontier Region; [...] PART V: CONCLUSION How European Was the Revolution of 1848/49?; R.Koselleck Index