Volume 46, Number 16 · October 21, 1999
The Magic of Bohemia
By R.J.W. Evans
Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes in the Life of a European City
by Peter Demetz
Hill and Wang, 411 pp., $15.00 (paper)
The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History
by Derek Sayer
Princeton University Press, 442 pp., $29.95
Exactly 150 years ago, Europe had just experienced its first continent-wide revolutions. The intense unrest of 1848, surfacing simultaneously in so many states, brought with it a new political slogan which has since proved the most powerful known to man. What happened in 1848 was called the 'springtime of nations.'
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