"This study argues that the Europe which is now being united was originally the product of the French Revolution, 1789-95, and was then formed by the emergent industrial capitalism."--BOOK JACKET. "Given the prediction that the new working class would launch another revolution which would spread the author investigates why that did not in fact prove to be the case. Rather, the new working classes were incorporated as part of the dynamics of capitalist development. The book examines the new industrial capitalists' fear of further revolution by their workers and conversely how the communist prediction of revolution arose from the failed upsurges of 1848-49."--BOOK JACKET.