Themes in modern European history 1830-1890

✍ Scribed by Bruce Waller

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 324
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This invaluable textbook provides an authoritative student guide to the main contours of 19th century Europe. Six distinguished scholars, regularly involved in student teaching, provide a collection of lively and challenging essays.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Maps: Europe 1830 and 1890; Revolutionary movements in nineteenth-century Europe; France: the search for stability, 1830 90; Italy: independence and unification without power; Germany: independence and unification with power; Explaining the Habsburg Empire, 1830 90; Russia: tsarism and the West; Progress, prosperity and positivism: cultural trends in mid-century; Shifting patterns of political thought and action: liberalism, nationalism, socialism; Steam: revolution in warfare and the economy; Relations between states and nations
Abstract: This invaluable textbook provides an authoritative student guide to the main contours of 19th century Europe. Six distinguished scholars, regularly involved in student teaching, provide a collection of lively and challenging essays