Christopher Clark: The 1848 Revolutions

Chris with the low key opera skills 😱👏👏👏

Hes one of a kind orator. His lecture is so entertaining and this is a second of his 1hr- lecture that ive watched before bed instead of being sleepy.

The effortlessness in which Chris jumps between his mothertounge and a flawless German and French pronunciation is very impressive.

It's almost bizarre that you can find a lecture filled with such sheer scholarship and brilliance on a platform like YouTube. Even his singing is exceptional.

The outstanding clarity with which this man is able to explain such a massively complicate theme as 1848 gives me chills

49:00 This statement is so deep and profound, people who've been paying attention to the state of our current society will relate to this deeply. Another fantastic lecture, bravo!

Jesus it's hard work keeping up with what this man is saying and assimilating a quarter of it

Erudite yet entertaining. 1848 has much to teach us about work, hunger and political forces.

I've just discovered Professor Clark and am excited to hear more. He is a brilliant historian and lecturer!

Prof Clark is, in my opinion, one of the best historians working at the moment. His ability to take a subject, like the year of revolutions, explain it and make it relevant to a modern audience, is unmatched. And to do that with such economy is a true gift, one to which we should all aspire, and be inspired by. The emergence of the nation-state in the aftermath of 1848 was harnessed by the reactionary forces of the old and tired monarchies and aristocracies desperately trying to cling to power. It was quickly taken up by the new economic aristocracy that emerged from the establishment of the wage-labour system, who saw that the best chance to maintain their power, was to use the same repressive machinery that the old aristocrats had kindly set up for them. It is still used by the (reactionary) populists in both Europe and the Americas, and the rest of the world, to distract from the planetary degradation and the (again) increasing social inequalities that have resulted from 2 centuries of the blind pursuit of capitalist greed. It has become married to, in this time, religious zealotry of a particularly vicious sort.

This video deserves subtitles.

I like lecturers who can actually sing.

Despite being Australian, Christopher Clark comes across as a true and heartfelt European. A great thinker and speaker, who is deciphering the complexity of 1848 and its implications on European history in an entertaining, thought provoking lecture in a sometimes bold, but mostly subtle, intricate and always humorous tone, attempting to tell history as objectively as it can be told. There are no rights and wrongs, only conflicting interests and forces leading to outcomes resonating to this day.

35:05 He can sing!

I am watching/ listening again, again. I have been studying history for many years. Rarely do I find something worth listening twice or more.

I really hope that the LRB and similar outlets become more culturally prevalent.

Christopher Clark is such a good historian

Best lecture I've seen on any topic for an awful long time. His passion and expertise shines through and he presents it so wonderfully.

"...there was music in the cafes at night, and revolution in the air..."

After being fed a diet of Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson, it's so nice to take in engaging and thought-provoking scholarship for a change.