Barricades and Borders Europe 1800-1914

Name: Barricades and Borders Europe 1800-1914
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ISBN: 9780199253005

ISBN-10: 0199253005

ISBN-13: 9780199253005

Edition: 3rd 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Robert Gildea

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This is a comprehensive survey of European history from the coup d'etat of Napoleon Bonaparte 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…

Book details

List price: $129.99
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/24/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.45" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



List of Maps


List of Tables



Europe 1800-1850



The Quickening Pace



Napoleonic Europe



Metternich's Europe



The Revolutions of 1848



Hierarchies of Culture



Europe 1850-1880



Mid-Century Prosperity



Nationalism and Unification



Revolution Contained



Mid-Century Culture



Europe 1880-1914



The Struggle for Economic Supremacy



Problems of National Integration



The Race for Empire



The Management of Society



Culture at the Turn of the Century



The Break-Up of Nineteenth-Century Europe


Bibliography


Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures


Index