Now with a substantially revised text and fully updated bibliography, this is a comprehensive survey of European history from Napoleon Bonaparte to the First World War. 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.

List of Maps List of Tables Part I: Europe 1800-1850 1. The Quickening Pace 2. Napoleonic Europe 3. Metternich's Europe 4. The Revolutions of 1848 5. Hierarchies of Culture Part II: Europe 1850-1880 6. Mid-Century Prosperity 7. Nationalism and Unification 8. Revolution Contained 9. Mid-Century Culture Part III: Europe 1880-1914 10. The Struggle for Economic Supremacy 11. Problems of National Integration 12. The Race for Empire 13. The Management of Society 14. Culture at the Turn of the Century 15. The Break-Up of Nineteenth-Century Europe Bibliography Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures Index

Robert Gildea , Professor of Modern French History, University of Oxford

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