This book is among the rare contributions to the 150th anniversary of 1848 which takes a completely new, theoretically informed approach. Instead of a traditional social or political history, the authors analyse the dichotomy between the international dimension in the ideas of the revolution and the nationalisation of memories in its commemorations over the past 150 years. The book offers original research on the history of European ideas and takes part in the current debate about the relationship between history and memory.

Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors PART I: INTRODUCTION The European Dimension in the Ideas of 1848 and the Nationalization of Its Memories; A.Körner PART II: A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE ON 1848 1848: Connected or Comparable Revolutions?; J.Breuilly Events and Non-Events...Cultural Reflections of and on 1848; M.Swales Did Women Have a Revolution? Gender Battles in the European Revolution of 1848/49; G.Hauch PART III: INTERNATIONALISM AND NATIONALISM IN THE EUROPEAN REVOLUTION Ideas and Memories of 1848 in France: Nationalism, République Universelle and Internationalism in the Goguette between 1848 and 1890; A.Körner National Union or Cosmopolitan Unity? Republican Discourse and the Instrumental Approach towards the German Question; S.Freitag Bohemian Spring 1848 - Conflict of Loyalties and Its Picture in Historiography; J.Havránek PART IV: COMMEMORATIONS OF 1848 IN NATIONAL CONTEXT From Divided Memory to Silence - The 1848 Celebrations in Italy; S.Soldani First Performances - Staging Memories of the French February Revolution; R.L.Spang 'Nationality Separates, Liberty Unites'? The Historical Commemoration of 1848/49 in Baden, a European Frontier Region; J.Merk PART V: CONCLUSION How European Was the Revolution of 1848/49?; R.Koselleck Index