1848 Revolutions
Whilst there were individual reasons giving rise to each of the revolutions of 1848 there were some common themes pertaining to all of them. General living conditions had been poor for some time, and an increase in industrialisation had led to overcrowding in cities, extensive child labour, and workers toiling long hours to create wealth in which they rarely shared.Poor harvests in the years prior to 1848 led to discontent amongst the working classes, while the middle classes wanted better representation in government. As well as the French revolution in 1789, a more recent (though only temporarily successful) revolution in 1846, where peasants in Cracow, in what was then the Austrian Empire, slaughtered over 1,000 nobles and declared the
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Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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