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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| A Special Relationship | |
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| Battle of New Orleans, 8 January 1815 | |
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| Origins and character of General Jackson | |
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| How the War of 1812 started | |
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| Divisions within America | |
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| The war on the Canadian frontier | |
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| Robert Fulton and early high-technology naval warfare | |
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| Captain Pasley, world strategy and rocket attacks | |
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| British naval weaknesses and strengths | |
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| The burning of Washington and mutual atrocities | |
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| Jackson in the South | |
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| The crushing of the Indians | |
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| Peace negotiations: John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay | |
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| Significance of the Treaty of Ghent | |
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| Beginnings of the Anglo-American "special relationship" | |
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| Castlereagh's statesmanship; the first disarmament treaty | |
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| The American seizure of Florida | |
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| Russia and the Oregon Territory | |
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| How Britons and Americans saw each other | |
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| Pro-Americanism among British progressives | |
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| Sydney Smith, Cobbett and Mrs. Trollope on America | |
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| The development of American English | |
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| Washington Irving and the "cultural cringe" | |
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| The United States: a future world power | |
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| The Congress Dances | |
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| Wellington in Vienna in 1815: his career and character | |
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| The fearful legacy of Bonaparte | |
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| Goya and the shift in European opinion | |
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| Revolt of the German intelligentsia | |
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| Metternich and the anti-French coalition | |
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| Bonaparte's exile and return | |
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| Before, during and after the Battle of Waterloo | |
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| Castlereagh, Metternich, Talleyrand and the Congress | |
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| The "loose cannon" at Vienna, Tsar Alexander I | |
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| The Russians in London | |
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| Protocol and expertise at Vienna | |
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| The losers: Saxony, Poland and Italy | |
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| "Big" Prussia and the lost cause of Germany unity | |
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| Entertainment at Vienna: the waltz | |
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| The secret police | |
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| The Holy Alliance and romantic Christianity | |
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| Tsar Alexander and Baroness Krudener | |
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| Beethoven and the notion of the Universal Genius | |
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| Music as a secular religion | |
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| Rossini and the growth of middle-class culture | |
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| Mass production of the piano | |
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| Schubert and the role of the artist in society | |
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| De Stael, den mother of the romantics | |
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| Romanticism in France: the Restoration | |
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| The rise of cultural ideology | |
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| David, Canova and the defeat of neoclassicism | |
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| Symbols: Victor Hugo and Chateaubriand | |
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| Paris, Panorama and Daguerre | |
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| New visions and the sublime | |
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| The cult of gigantism and John Martin | |
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| Cole and the rise of American landscape art | |
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| The End of the Wilderness | |
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| The semaphore and the post | |
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| Coach travel, its dangers and cruelties | |
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| Road vehicles, parking problems, traffic jams | |
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| The roads debate and the work of McAdam | |
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| Telford and the transport revolution | |
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| Southey and Telford in Scotland | |
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| Why motors and motorways were not built | |
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| Steam power, Stephenson and rail | |
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| Wind power, sail and steamships | |
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| George Cayley and air power | |
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| Fall in the cost of long-distance sea travel | |
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| European population explosion and mass emigration | |
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| Why America was so attractive | |
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| The great age of cheap land | |
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| Settlement of the Lake Plains and the Mississippi Valley | |
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| The Highland Clearances and Edwin Landseer | |
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| Fenimore Cooper and the wilderness | |
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| Jackson and Indian "removal" | |
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| Indian annihilation on the Argentine pampas | |
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| Problems in the settlement of Canada | |
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| Southern Africa: British, Boers and Bantu | |
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| The rise of missionary radicalism | |
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| Growth of the world penal colony system | |
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| Transportation to Australia | |
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| Governor Macquarie and his enemies | |
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| Destruction of the aborigines | |
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| Tragedy in Tasmania | |
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| New Zealand, the missionaries and the Maoris | |
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| Continuing Russian Expansion | |
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| The war in Georgia | |
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| Muridism and the origins of Islamic fundamentalism | |
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| Ecological imperialism; the role of disease | |
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| Exploration of California; polar expeditions | |
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| Urban sprawl and Loudon's creation of suburban villas | |
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| The beginnings of conservation | |
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| World Policeman | |
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| Lord Exmouth's destruction of Algiers | |
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| Forms of slavery: Russian military colonies | |
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| The problem of serfdom in Russia | |
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| Russia a servile society | |
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| American guilt feelings about chattel slavery | |
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| The North and slavery | |
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| Eli Whitney and industrialized cotton planting | |
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| Creation of "the South" | |
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| The Missouri Compromise | |
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| Slave revolts in the Americas | |
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| The case of Haiti | |
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| The British antislavery lobby | |
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| The Royal Navy as world policeman | |
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| The new West African colonies | |
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| The beginnings of gunboat diplomacy | |
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| British penetration of the Middle East | |
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| Limited naval resources | |
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| Bathurst's Colonial Office | |
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| Raffles and the founding of Singapore | |
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| Scientific work of the East India Company | |
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| Piracy in Southeast Asia | |
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| Can the Center Hold? | |
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| Wordsworth and the 1818 Westmoreland election | |
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| A great literary dinner party | |
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| Romanticism and poverty | |
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| Lack of leadership on the Left | |
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| Cobbett and Leigh Hunt in prison comfort | |
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| The anti-Corn Law riots | |
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| The strength of the ruling class: the farmers; the clergy: last of the prince-archbishops; building new churches; clerical propagandists: Hannah More | |
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| Nonconformity and the radicals | |
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| The intimacy of power | |
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| Small scale of government | |
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| The cabinet and the House of Commons | |
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| Decline of patronage and sinecures | |
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| The way the Commons worked | |
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| The electoral system | |
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| The Lowther empire in the Northwest | |
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| Ideological warfare among English writers | |
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| Wordsworth's political philosophy | |
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| Brougham's challenge in Westmorland | |
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| De Quincey and the local newspaper war | |
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| Results of the 1818 election | |
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| The "Edinburgh factor": Naysmith, Jeffrey and the Review | |
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| Scott, the Quarterly and mass publishing | |
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| Southey and the case for censorship | |
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| Shelley and the case for violence | |
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| Peterloo and its consequences | |
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| The Six Acts and the Cato Street Conspiracy | |
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| Honorable Gentlemen and Weaker Vessels | |
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| Character and unpopularity of George IV | |
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| His marriage to Caroline of Brunswick | |
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| His kindness to the "Windsor Nuns" | |
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| Impact of George IV on London | |
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| An artist's view of London in the early 1820s | |
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| Rise of interior decoration | |
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| Parting of the ways for male and female fashions | |
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| Dueling: France, Ireland, Scotland, America, Germany | |
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| Literary and political duels in England; decline of duelin | |
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| Gambling and women | |
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| The battle of the sexes; legal position of women; antifeminism of the romantics: Coleridge, Byron, Fuseli; Mill and wife beating; Saint-Simon, Enfantin and Comte | |
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| Women as manipulators: as performers, writers, artists | |
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| Education of women | |
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| Cross-dressing: the case of Nadezhda Nurova | |
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| The case of George Sand | |
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| The case of Harriet Martineau; of Jane Austen | |
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| Confusion about the marriage law | |
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| Large number of bastards | |
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| Elopements and cross-class marriages | |
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| Bohemianism and writers' attitudes to sex | |
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| European conventions on sex and matrimony | |
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| America and birth control | |
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| Varying attitudes to adultery | |
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| Growing marital breakdowns; the Coleridge case | |
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| The case of Byron | |
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| Vigee Le Brun; the Pagets and the Wellesleys | |
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| Scottish divorces and the case of Hazlitt | |
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| English parliamentary divorces; the Johnstone-Brudenell case | |
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| Trial of Queen Caroline | |
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| Long-term consequences of the Caroline affair | |
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| Women as scientists: the case of Mrs. Somerville | |
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| Forces, Machines, Visions | |
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| Fire-damp and Sir Humphry Davy | |
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| Davy, Coleridge, Shelley and electricity | |
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| Michael Faraday and European physics | |
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| John Dalton and modern chemistry | |
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| Otley, Lyell and the foundations of Darwinism | |
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| Charles Babbage and the computer | |
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| Industrialization and science policy | |
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| Self-education and invention: James Naysmith; Joseph Bramah, Joseph Clement and James Fox; trade union barriers to self-advancement | |
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| Brunel and the first production line | |
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| The Thames Tunnel | |
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| Early railways | |
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| Scientists, draftsmen and artists | |
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| Charles Bell and scientific anatomy | |
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| Illustrated books and new forms of reproduction | |
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| Boys, Callow, the Varleys | |
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| Humble origins of artist-craftsmen | |
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| The case of William Blake; his visions | |
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| Samuel Palmer and the Ancients | |
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| The last patrons: De Tabley, Egremont, Beaumont | |
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| The rise of public art galleries | |
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| Academies and one-man shows | |
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| Gericault and Le Radeau de la Meduse | |
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| The first photograph | |
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| English influence on French culture: Le Boningtonisme; Constable at the salon; the response of Gericault and Delacroix | |
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| Turner and the depiction of light | |
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| Masques of Anarchy | |
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| Bolivar's crossing of the Andes | |
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| Cultural strength of the Spanish Empire | |
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| Causes of its dissolution | |
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| The earliest revolts; rise of warlordism | |
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| Background and character of Bolivar | |
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| Terror and atrocities in the liberal struggle | |
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| Failure of Spain to reimpose its rule | |
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| Naval war; Anglo-American intervention | |
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| The Monroe doctrine and Canning | |
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| Bolivar and the new states; his fall | |
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| The pursuit of isolation: Paraguay | |
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| The first multiracial state: Brazil | |
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| Liberalism in Spain and French intervention | |
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| Bitter foundations of modern Spanish politics | |
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| Italian liberalism and the secret societies | |
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| Byron in Italy: from sex to politics | |
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| The drowning of Shelley; Byron in Greece | |
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| The nature of Turkish rule | |
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| Greek resistance: bandits and paramilitaries | |
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| Intervention and death of Byron; the London loan | |
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| Muhammad Ali and Egyptian military intervention | |
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| Cairo in the 1820s | |
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| Growing liberalism in Turkey | |
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| The Franco-British-Russian peacekeeping force | |
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| Admiral Codrington and the Battle of Navarino | |
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| The matrix of modern Greece | |
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| Fresh Air and Drowsy Syrups | |
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| Outdoor exercise: De Quincey and other walkers | |
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| The first modern football match | |
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| Cricket and the class system | |
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| The failure to gentrify prizefighting | |
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| Successful gentrification of horse racing | |
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| The quest for bloodstock: Moorcroft in central Asia | |
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| Invention of the Great Game | |
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| Dog lovers and the rise of animal protectionism | |
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| Protection for children and the Factory Acts | |
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| Bringing up children: the way artists and writers did it | |
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| Case histories: a duke's children; the young Ruskin, Mill and Browning; Hugo, W. E. Forster, Tennyson, Dickens, Thackeray, Lincoln, Flaubert, Baudelaire, Wagner, Kierkegaard; girls: Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte | |
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| The Lancaster and Bell systems | |
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| Infant prodigies: Liszt, Mendelssohn | |
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| TB and young people: the tragic case of Weber | |
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| Weakness of early-19th-century medicine | |
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| Medical schools and body snatching; surgery | |
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| Quacks; what doctors earned | |
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| Insanity and its treatment; the case of Mary Lamb | |
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| Did "modern bustle" produce more suicides? | |
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| Growth of sea bathing and resorts | |
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| Alcoholism, overeating and the earliest diets | |
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| Cooking, dining, wining and smoking; women smokers | |
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| Early-19th-century confusion about drug addiction | |
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| Easy availability of opium; prominent addicts | |
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| The Clifton drugs circle and Coleridge; De Quincey's Confessions | |
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| The international opium trade | |
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| The mysterious case of China | |
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| Weaknesses of Chinese government and society | |
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| Corruption, Western traders and the opium traffic | |
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| Toward the Opium Wars | |
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| Western technology and the first Burmese War | |
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| Elphinstone, Bentinck and the "moral empire" in India | |
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| Spanish Philippines and Dutch Indonesia | |
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| The archetype hermit-state, Japan | |
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| Xenophobia and corruption under the shogunate | |
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| Mabuchi, Moto-ori and the revival of Shinto | |
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| Birth of modern Japanese racism | |
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| Fichte and German racism | |
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| Hegel's theory of power, the state and history | |
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| Growth of historical consciousness in the West | |
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| Saint-Simon and early socialism | |
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| Positivism, Fourier and Robert Owen | |
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| Bentham's utilitarian horrors | |
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| Coleridge and the Christian clerisy | |
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| De Maistre, the Jesuits and Russia | |
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| Military structure of Tsarist Russia | |
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| The Tsarist secret police and censorship | |
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| Origins of the Decembrist conspiracy; conflicting aims | |
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| Accession of Nicholas I and collapse of the revolt | |
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| The Tsar and Pushkin | |
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| Power of the Decembrist myth | |
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| Crash! | |
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| The rise of international credit; the Rothschilds | |
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| The Bank of the United States and paper money | |
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| Bank-led inflation and land speculation | |
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| The bank crisis of 1819 and its consequences | |
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| John Marshall, the Supreme Court and capitalism | |
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| Britain returns to the gold standard | |
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| Beginning of the first modern trade cycle; a golden age for economists | |
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| Huskisson and free trade | |
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| Peel and factory reform; reforming penology | |
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| The beginnings of trade union privilege | |
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| World prosperity: the radicals turn to pornography; general rise in living standards; new products; the beginnings of refrigeration in America; the new steam-heated kitchen in Brighton; "Prosperity" Robinson; growth of a mass reading public in France; the great boom in Latin America | |
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| 1825: "Black December": the financial crisis | |
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| Disastrous consequences in Latin America | |
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| Downfall of the economics | |
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| Case histories of ruin and near-ruin: Martineau, Fawkes, Congreve, Scott, the young Disraeli, Palmerston | |
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| Peel and the Corn Laws: a foreshadowing | |
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| The Coming of the Demos | |
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| Era of Good Feelings, or of corruption? | |
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| General Jackson in Washington | |
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| The rise of press power | |
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| The campaign of 1824 | |
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| J. Q. Adams, Henry Clay and the "Corrupt Bargain" | |
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| Fragility of British rule in Ireland | |
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| Daniel O'Connell and the first mass movement | |
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| The Clare Election and Catholic Emancipation | |
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| Creation of the Democratic Party in the United States | |
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| The 1828 election; Van Buren and his political machine | |
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| Jackson's triumph and his demotic inaugural | |
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| The spoils system comes to Washington | |
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| The Peggy Eaton Affair | |
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| The birth of the modern presidency | |
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| The press, the new dynamic force of the 1820s | |
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| Thiers and the journalist-historians of Paris | |
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| The cultural battle in Restoration France | |
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| The significance of Berlioz | |
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| La Muette de Portici | |
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| Victor Hugo's Hernani | |
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| Depression in France; frustration of the young | |
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| Charles X's reactionary policy | |
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| The July Days and the triumph of the journalists | |
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| The revolt in Belgium | |
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| Poland's bid for independence, and its collapse | |
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| Agricultural distress in England: Captain Swing | |
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| Calls for reform and the loss of Palmerston | |
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| The 1830 election and the triumph of Brougham | |
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| The Iron Duke, Peel and the Tory defeat | |
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| The Whigs take power and divide the spoils | |
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| Glimpses into a misty future | |
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| Charles Lamb has the last word | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |