1848: Year of Revolution, by Mike Rapport (TPB, 2008, 461 pages, some underlining, $3)
1848 was the year when working class radicals and middle-class liberals got together to overthrow the governments and kings of Paris, Milan, Venice, Vienna, Prague, Budapest, Krakow, Munich and Berlin. The revolutionaries would soon themselves be overthrown, but what a great moment in time. (Meanwhile in the US, women were meeting in Seneca Falls and gold was being discovered in California.)
Look for this book on the new non-fiction table.
