This is a comprehensive survey of European history from the coup d'etat of Napoleon Boneparte in France to the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand at Sarajevo, which led to the First World War. It concentrates on the twin themes of revolution and nationalism, which often combined in the early part of the century but which increasingly became rival creeds. Going beyond traditional political and diplomatic history, the book incorporates the results of recent research on population movements, the expansion of markets, the accumulation of capital, social mobility, education, changing patterns of leisure, religious practices, and intellectual and artistic developments. The work falls into three chronoligical sections. the first, starting in 1800 (rather than the more usual 1815) follows the build-up of the revolutionary currents which were eventually going to erupt in the `Year of Revolutions' 1848. The second, from 1850 to 1880, deals with the golden age of capitalism, the successful culmination of struggles for national unification, and the threat of anarchism. This book is intended for students of nineteenth-century European history (1st, 2nd, and 3rd year undergraduate).
- ISBN10 0198206240
- ISBN13 9780198206248
- Publish Date March 1996 (first published 1 June 1987)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 November 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 247
- Language English