The Nineteenth Century Europe 1789-1914

In the nineteenth century Europe changed more rapidly and more radically than during any prior period. These six specially commissioned chapters by eminent historians offer the student and general reader a unique approach to understanding one of the most complex periods of modern history, addressing all the major issues in Europe's political, social, economic, cultural, international, and Imperial history.

T.C.W. Blanning is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge.

List of contributors

xi

Introduction: the end of the old regime

1

(9)

T.C.W. Blanning

Politics

10

(37)

Robert Tombs

The triumph of liberalism

10

(2)

Landmarks

12

(3)

The political bedrock

15

(8)

Politics and change

23

(5)

Ideologies and institutions

28

(5)

Diverging paths

33

(6)

Geopolitics

39

(6)

Conclusion

45

(2)

Society

47

(31)

Colin Heywood

Conceptualizing change

47

(4)

Liberalism, the `middling strata', and the competitive society

51

(10)

Socialism, the workers, and the cooperative society

61

(9)

Conservatism, the `upper strata', and the hierarchical society

70

(6)

Conclusion

76

(2)

The European economy, 1815--1914

78

(48)

Niall Ferguson

Apocalyptic visions

78

(4)

Quantifying growth

82

(3)

Explaining growth: labour supply

85

(4)

Capital

89

(6)

The spirit of capitalism

95

(2)

Other sectors

97

(7)

The geography of change

104

(14)

Consequences

118

(8)

Culture

126

(32)

James J. Sheehan

Modern culture

126

(1)

Institutions

127

(3)

Secularization

130

(4)

Science

134

(6)

History

140

(7)

Systems

147

(5)

Modernism

152

(6)

International politics, peace, and war, 1815--1914

158

(52)

Paul W. Schroeder

The Vienna system

159

(6)

The system undermined and overthrown, 1848--1861

165

(10)

The creation of Prussia-Germany, 1862--1871

175

(8)

The Bismarckian system in operation, 1871--1890

183

(5)

Imperialism and world politics, 1890--1907

188

(12)

The descent into the maelstrom, 1908--1914

200

(10)

Overseas expansion, imperialism, and Empire, 1815--1914

210

(31)

A.G. Hopkins

Ideology and scholarship in the study of imperialism

211

(7)

The European empires in 1815

218

(6)

1870: The struggle for the mastery of the world

224

(8)

Europe and the world overseas in 1914

232

(7)

Conclusion

239

(2)

Conclusion: into the twentieth century

241

(7)

T.C.W. Blanning

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The Nineteenth Century Europe 1789-1914

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