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, University of Oxford

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