Bøger af Mike Rapport

Paris in the Belle Époque is remembered as a golden age of cultural flourishing and political progress. The time between the revolutionary 1870s and the outbreak of war in 1914 saw the modern French capital take shape: by day Parisians could admire the rising Eiffel Tower and Sacré-Coeur Basilica, while at night they roamed the Bohemian world of the Moulin Rouge.But as Mike Rapport reveals in this authoritative and beautifully written new history beneath its elegant veneer Paris was at war with itself. The Belle Époque was also an era of social and religious unrest, women's emancipation and violent clashes over what it meant to be French.Paris pulsated with the pleasures and anxieties of modernity: blazing electric lights illuminating the night, the first cars speeding down the boulevards, as well as the first Métro trains and plane flights. At the same time reactionary forces reasserted themselves-mostly dramatically in the infamous Dreyfus affair.Told through the eyes of the greatest personalities of the age-novelist Émile Zola, feminist activist Marguerite Durand, Vietnamese diplomat Nguy?n Tr?ng H?p and socialist politician Jean Jaurès-the book weaves together stories of splendour and suffering, delight and agony, offering a brilliant account of the shadows cast across the City of Light.

A brilliant historical narrative of London, Paris and New York in the Age of Revolution, just as they were transforming into the great global cities we know them to be today.

In 1848, Europe was engulfed in a firestorm of revolution. The streets of cities from Paris to Bucharest and from Berlin to Palermo were barricaded and flooded by armed insurgents proclaiming political liberties and national freedom. The conservative order which had held sway since the fall of Napoleon in 1815 crumbled beneath the revolutionary assault. This book narrates the breathtaking events which overtook Europe in 1848, tracing brilliantly their course from the exhilaration of the liberal triumph, through the fear of social chaos to the final despair of defeat and disillusionment. The failures of 1848 would scar European history with the contradictions of authoritarianism and revolution until deep into the twentieth century.

I 1848 blev Europa opslugt i en brandstorm af revolutioner, og frihedsråbet gik som en steppebrand over hele kontinentet.Overalt i de europæiske storbyer – fra Paris til Budapest, fra Berlin til Palermo – gik folket på gaderne, byggede barrikader, råbte slagord og krævede politiske rettigheder og frihed for deres nationale mindretal. Den konservative samfundsorden, der havde holdt stand siden Napoleons fald i 1815, smuldrede nu under den revolutionære flodbølge, og magtbalancen i de eksisterende imperier forrykkedes for altid.Kongeriger og fyrstedømmer gik under, og nye nationalstater blev dannet. Frie forfatninger blev udformet, folket fik øget stemmeret, og europæiske herskere så den gudgivne magt, de havde haft gennem århundreder, blive svækket.Historikeren Mike Rapport beskriver de storslåede begivenheder, der overgik Europa i 1848-49. Han sporer revolutionens kurs fra den liberale triumfs løftede stemning over frygten for socialt kaos til de sidste dages fortvivlelse med nederlag og desillusion – og ender med de revolutionære bevægelsers dødskamp i 1849. De fejl, der blev begået i 1848, skulle komme til at trække dybe ar gennem Europas historie langt op i det tyvende århundrede.1848 blev vidne til den spirende ”Folkenes Æra” i Europa og blev derfor det Det Europæiske Forår.”Denne levende historieskrivning giver et imponerende overblikog undersøger, hvordan disse oprør formede det moderne Europa”– Scotland on SundayMike Rapport (født i New York, 1967) har en universitetsgrad i historie fra University of Edinburgh i Skotland og en doktorgrad fra University of Bristol i England. Efter at have undervist i europæisk historie ved Stirling University i Skotland i sytten år underviser han nu i Glasgow, også i Skotland, i samme fag. Hans speciale og store faglige interesse er Den Franske Revolution og de følger, denne havde i hele Europa. Han bor i Stirling sammen med sin kone og sin datter.