Serial Revolutions 1848
Writing, Politics, Form
- Publisher's listprice GBP 112.50
-
56 936 Ft (54 225 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 10% (cc. 5 694 Ft off)
- Discounted price 51 243 Ft (48 803 Ft + 5% VAT)
56 936 Ft
Availability
Estimated delivery time: In stock at the publisher, but not at Prospero's office. Delivery time approx. 3-5 weeks.
Not in stock at Prospero.
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 February 2022
- ISBN 9780198830412
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages478 pages
- Size 240x160x30 mm
- Weight 834 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 66 Illustrations 340
Categories
Short description:
Shows how a series of revolutions that erupted across Europe in the mid to late 1840s were crucial to the creation of modern ideas of constitutional democracy, citizenship, and human rights.
MoreLong description:
1848 was a pivotal moment not only in Europe but in much of the rest of the world too. Marx's scornful dismissal of the revolutions created a historiography for 1848 that has persisted for more than 150 years. Serial Revolutions 1848 shows how, far from being the failure that Karl Marx claimed them to be, the revolutions of 1848 were a powerful response to the political failure of governments across Europe to care for their people. Crucially, this revolutionary response was the result of new forms of representation and mediation: until the ragged and the angry could see themselves represented, and represented as a serial phenomenon, such a political consciousness was impossible. By the 1840s, the developments in printing, transport, and distribution discussed in Clare Pettitt's Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848 (Oxford University Press, 2020) had made the social visible in an unprecedented way. This print revolution led to a series of real and bloody revolutions in the streets of European cities. The revolutionaries of 1848 had the temerity to imagine universal human rights and a world in which everyone could live without fear, hunger, or humiliation. If looked at like this, the events of 1848 do not seem such 'poor incidents', as Marx described them, nor such an embarrassing failure after all.
Returning to 1848, we can choose to look back on that 'springtime of the peoples' as a moment of tragi-comic failure, obliterated by the brutalities that followed, or we can look again, and see it as a proleptic moment of stored potential, an extraordinary series of events that generated long-distance and sustainable ideas about global citizenship, international co-operation, and a shared and common humanity which have not yet been fully understood or realised.
Pettitt's monograph is an ambitious and fascinating read: deftly crafted and filled with detailed and painstaking research.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Why 1848 Matters
Revolutionary Tourists
Moving Pictures
The Ragged of Europe
The Inter-National Novel
Under Siege
Serially Speaking
Slavery and Citizenship
O bella libert?
Forms of the Future
The Grammar of Revolution
Flaubert's Afterword
Bibliography
Serial Revolutions 1848: Writing, Politics, Form
Subcribe now and receive a favourable price.
Subscribe
56 936 HUF
