G avin M urray -M iller . Revolutionary Europe

What Gavin Murray-Miller achieves in Revolutionary Europe: Politics, Community and Culture in Transnational Context, 1775–1922 is a remarkable feat—to provide an up-to-date, highly readable narrative history of European revolutions, with some significant forays into non-European contexts, from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth. The central theme that forms the backbone of Murray-Miller’s work is the rise of a tradition of European revolutionary radicalism. At a time when the boundaries of political and social communities were constantly challenged, rethought, and reshaped, European radicals, Murray-Miller writes, articulated a wide range of “communitarian visions” (4) that inspired political revolutions and at the same time laid the groundwork for new forms of solidarity, ranging from national belonging to socialist internationalism. The book opens with a conventional account of two intertwined processes that ushered in the revolutions of the late eighteenth century—the drive toward state centralization, which undermined long-standing social relations, and the...

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