The Revolutions of 1848
Revolutions of 1848 could be characterized as a series of republic rebellions that were consistently progressively advanced towards the European monarchies from Sicily and eventually spread into other nations like France, Austria, Germany, Italy empires (Sperber, 2005). Unfortunately, all these revolutions were not successful and faced massive repression, disillusionment among the liberals (Sperber, 2005). Other nations/cities involved include; the United Kingdom, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Vienna, Paris, and Hungary (Sperber, 2005).
Typically, the outbreak of 1848 revolutions was triggered by three major forces. First was due to poor governance and the extreme rate of the negligence of the monarchs towards ordinary persons creating a significant gap or imbalance (Robertson, 1952). The second reason for the outbreak was a result of consistent calls for the formation of a liberal system of government. The third driving force was the increasing sense of nationalism that was being formulated by foreign rules, hence giving hope for possibilities of future unification (Robertson, 1952).
Conventionally, the 1848 revolutionary movements in different European nations became unsuccessful due to conflicting ideologies, or differences in philosophies for the individual states of revolutionaries (Price, 1988). This made conservatives to regain power over, hence overwhelm them. Besides, the revolutionaries had a weak military system, compared to the monarchs (Price, 1988).
To possibly revert these failures into success, revolutionaries needed to engage in nationalism altogether. This could have granted them more power and a more robust military to outdo the conservatives collectively. As earlier observed, lack of influential allies, support, a weak military, and differences among revolutionaries were among the primary causes of its failure. Combining forces from large rebels like Germany, Italy, and Austria and facing the monarchs at once, with similar objectives, would have altered the outcome.
References
Price, R. (1988). The Revolutions of 1848. Macmillan International Higher Education. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=llhdDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR6&dq=+causes+of+revolutions+of+1848+failure&ots=qpif4AAqio&sig=FFMDjKpWd-fDjITbC4a0r5CP_2Q
Robertson, P. S. (1952). Revolutions of 1848: a social history (Vol. 1025). Princeton University Press. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=SX-ectAexEoC&oi=fnd&pg=PP9&dq=revolutions+of+1848&ots=U5Ee3jvmHf&sig=saOs3NhW4IwUrULE2VvNm_mgZ00
Sperber, J. (2005). The European Revolutions, 1848–1851 (Vol. 29). Cambridge University Press. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=BhfAxkW6dfsC&oi=fnd&pg=PR6&dq=revolutions+of+1848&ots=-wGRNv875u&sig=ZGwMS1J9cBOVYs4OEprpGohQX3w