Geschichte Der Deutschen Revolution Von 1848-1849, 2 Volume Set
(Frankfurt; 1977): Buchergilde Gutenberg. Thick Octavo. Item #031443
German Text. In two volumes; 662 and770pp. The most authoritative books on the German Revolution, 1848-1849. The First volume is a comprehensive study based on documents discovered nearly a hundred years after the events. The second volume is divided into nine large parts: the beginnings of the Frankfurt parliament, the German powers and the regency of the Reich, the September crisis, the counter-revolution in Austria, the Prussian coup d'e'tat, the work of the Frankfurt parliament, the saving of particularism, civil war over the constitution, and "end, result, and progress". Here the author presents the constitutional work of the revolutionists, the social revolutionary and nationalistic threats to the revolution, the beginning of the counter-revolution and its eventual victory over the uprising of 1849. A handsome set bound in blue cloth, spines lettered in white. A near fine set in near fine dust jackets.
Price: $175.00