Revolutionary Europe: Politics, Community and Culture in Transnational Context, 1775–1922

About the Author Gavin Murray-Miller is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at Cardiff University, UK. He is the author of The Cult of the Modern: Trans-Mediterranean France and The Construction of French Modernity (2017) and Revolutionary Europe, (Bloomsbury 2020) Product Description Revolutionary Europe is an original examination of radical political movements during Europe's long 19th century. It employs both national and transnational contexts, incorporating new debates in Atlantic history, empire studies and cultural history to give a comprehensive narrative of the period from 1775 to 1922.Rather than assessing revolution as a purely theoretical, socially-driven force or a structural phenomenon, the book presents revolution as a process of community building and cultural identification born from instances of acute social and political crisis. Taking into account various moments of political upheaval during the 19th century, including the French, Russian and 1848 revolutions, it explores the ways in which political actors attempted to construct new definitions of sovereignty and social unity in a period characterized by vast social, economic and governmental change.In a wide-ranging text that covers Britain and much of continental Europe in detail, as well as reaching out to the Americas and Atlantic and Mediterranean Worlds, Gavin Murray-Miller provides an authoritative transnational study of revolution in the 19th-century age of high nationalism. Review “With an extraordinary understanding of the vast literature on the subject, Gavin Murray-Miller carefully navigates the causes and consequences of a century and a half of revolution that roiled Europe and the American colonies and, interestingly, concludes with a thought-provoking chapter on the use of revolution in the 'non-western' world. Readers of this work will greatly benefit from the encounter.” ―Dr Jack Censer, George Mason University, USA“Revolutionary Europe offers a comprehensive history of the European revolutionary movements that spanned the long 19th century. Crucially, Gavin Murray-Miller remains focused on the events in Europe while ever mindful of their relationships with revolutions in the Americas and decolonizing movements in African and Asia.” ―Andrew Zimmerman, Professor of History and International Affairs, George Washington University, USA“This book is an impressive achievement. Rooted in an up-to-date reading of theoretical developments and telling the story of revolution from the age of the American Revolution to that of the Russian, Revolutionary Europe is a rich, insightful and enjoyable read.” ―Michael Rapport, Reader in Modern European History, University of Glasgow, UK