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The emergence of the modern European world : from the seventeenth to the twentieth century / Edward Whiting Fox, with the assistance of Susan Harris Shefter.
LIBRA D102 .F69 1991
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fox, Edward Whiting.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Europe--History--1492-.
- Europe.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 502 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass., USA : B. Blackwell, 1991.
- Summary:
- This is a narrative history of the modern western world, and of four centuries in which the nations of Europe shaped civilized society throughout the globe. The story encompasses the great revolutions in England, America, France and Russia; the rise of the European and American democracies; the acquisition and loss of empire; the demographic transition and the industrial revolution; and the wars that so critically changed the course of human history.
- This then is history on a grand scale, but the reader will swiftly discover that it is neither devoid of personality nor based on a narrow thesis. To the traditional focus on power, Professor Fox adds the twin themes of culture and environment. He adds a new focus on the development of the Atlantic community as the chief generator both of the modern world and of liberal democracy.
- This is analytical history at its best, packed with incident and insight, written with pace and style. It is illustrated with 9 maps, and supplemented by an annotated bibliography of further reading, a chronology, and a full index.
- Contents:
- 1 The Dawn of the Modern World 3
- The Rise of the Administrative Monarchy in France 5
- The Rejection of Absolute Monarchy in England 12
- The European World 20
- 2 The Eighteenth Century 26
- The New Monarchies 28
- The Atlantic Community 36
- The American Revolution 44
- 3 The French Revolution 48
- The Impasse 50
- The Constitutional Monarchy 52
- The Revolutionary Republic 57
- 4 The Industrial Revolution 67
- The Coal Trade 70
- The New Industry 73
- Mechanized Transportation 76
- Industrial Civilization 80
- 5 The Napoleonic Empire 84
- The Consulate 85
- The Continental System 89
- The Wars of Liberation 97
- 6 The Concert of Europe 103
- In Quest of Peace 105
- The Congress System 112
- The Revolutions of 1830 117
- Romanticism 120
- 7 Pax Britannica 125
- Postwar Depression and Reform 127
- Empire in India 132
- Workshop of the World 138
- Mediterranean Politics 141
- Crisis in North America 144
- Victorian Society 150
- 8 The Demographic Revolution 156
- The Revolutionary Tradition 159
- Paris, 1848 165
- Germany and the Habsburg Empire, 1848 171
- Europe After the Revolutions 178
- 9 The Consolidation and Expansion of Europe 190
- Germany and France 193
- Italy and Eastern Europe 202
- The Scramble for Empire 207
- The Oceanic Powers: Great Britain, United States, and Japan 226
- Industrial Society 231
- 10 Peace or War 239
- Alliances and Alignments 243
- The First World War 252
- The Peace 266
- The Russian Revolution 274
- 11 A World Safe for Democracy 283
- The Economic Consequences of the War 285
- The Policy of Fulfillment and the Era of Good Feeling 303
- The Great Depression and the Collapse of the World Order 307
- On the Brink 323
- 12 The Second World War 329
- Phase One 331
- The Expansion of the War 342
- The World at War 349
- The Turning of the Tide 356
- The Defeat of Germany 362
- The End of the War 369
- 13 The Postwar Decade 374
- The Reconstruction of Europe 377
- The Postwar Era in the Pacific and the Colonial World 386
- The Eroding Perimeter 400
- 14 The Emergence of the Modern World 413
- France and Algeria 415
- The Berlin Wall 420
- The New Prosperity 422.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1557860505
- 1557861269
- OCLC:
- 23254692
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