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The ascendancy of Europe : 1815-1914 / M.S. Anderson.
LIBRA D359 .A52 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, M. S. (Matthew Smith)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Europe--Politics and government--1815-1871.
- Europe.
- Politics and government.
- Europe--Politics and government--1871-1918.
- Europe--History--1815-1871.
- History.
- Europe--History--1871-1918.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 448 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Harlow : Pearson Education, 2003.
- Summary:
- This new edition of the seminal and best selling history of Europe's century of global ascendancy includes a new introduction and bibliography. The carefully drawn discussions are pulled together and reinforced by a new afterword. Presented in a new textbook format and thoroughly revised throughout, the survey provides students with an invaluable guide to a notoriously complex period.
- Lucidly written and constructed as a series of essays, the text covers the political and economic balance of power, the mechanics of government, economy and society, states, nations, europe and the world, Armed Forces and war and romanticism, evolution and consciousness.Reviews of the previous editionsAnderson's book is one of the few that explains economic, social, military, intellectual and colonial developments in a clear, precise and engaging manner.'Teaching History Packed with shrewdness, wisdom and well-directed erudition...invaluble to university students and teachers.' British Book News
- Notes:
- Previous ed.: 1999.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-418) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0582772591
- OCLC:
- 51108570
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