"I never doubted that the victory over France must precede the restoration of the German kingdom, and if we did not su…"

"Nationalism at first had seemed to pose a threat to Europe's monarchies. In the 1860s, however, the kingdoms of Piedm…"

"It is not by speeches and majority resolutions that the great questions of the time are decided – that was the big mi…"

"Most of what the men of 1848 fought for was brought about within a quarter of a century, and the men who accomplished…"

"1848 was the decisive year of German, and so of European, history: it recapitulated Germany's past and anticipated Ge…"

"The peasants of central Europe also had their social discontents, particularly in Austria where they still lived unde…"

"Nationalism was the great common factor in the central European revolutions of 1848. Indeed it was a spirit never to …"

"Nationalism at first had seemed to pose a threat to Europe's monarchies. In the 1860s, however, the kingdoms of Piedm…"