Europe in the Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780582493858 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 508 str.

Harry Hearder; H. Hearder

Opis

The struggles for power between individuals, parties and classes, and between the nations of Europe as a whole, are discussed within the context of a study of the administration and growth of European society.

Spis treści

List of Maps Preface 1. The Sources 2. Europe in 1830 3. Political Ideas 4. The Growth of Industry 5. Agriculture and Commerce 6. The Conditions of the Masses 7. The life-style of the upper classes 8. Diplomacy and Wars 9 France: Still the seed-bed of ideologies 10. Britain: The Mother of Parliaments and the Source of Industrialization 11. Iron and Blood: The Unification of Germany 12. A Nation Born of Conflict: The Unification of Italy 13. Experiments in Moderation: Belgium, Holland and Switzerland 14. A Sad Anachronism: Austria-Hungary 15. Societies in Torment: Russia and Poland Under the Tsars 16. The Stubborn Survival of the 'Sick Man': The Ottoman Empire and the Balkan States 17. Europe and the World 18. Education, Scholarship, Science and Religion 19. Literature and the Arts 20. Europe in 1880 Bibliography Maps Index

O autorze

Harry Hearder