Themes in modern European history, 1830-90 / edited by Bruce Waller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Waller, Bruce.

Series:

Themes in modern European history.

Themes in modern European history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--History--1789-1900.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 1990, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Providing a series of lively essays which reflect the skills that historians have to master when challenged by problems of evidence, interpretation, and presentation, this important new text covers the topics of France, Germany, Italy, Austria, and Russia, as well as analyzing the themes of political thought, cultural trends, the economy and warfare, international relations and imperialism.Six distinguished scholars, all of whom are regularly involved in student teaching, provide an authoritative student guide to the main contours of nineteenth-century European history when the conti

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction; Maps: Europe 1830 and 1890; Revolutionary movements in nineteenth-century Europe; France: the search for stability, 1830 90; Italy: independence and unification without power; Germany: independence and unification with power; Explaining the Habsburg Empire, 1830 90; Russia: tsarism and the West; Progress, prosperity and positivism: cultural trends in mid-century; Shifting patterns of political thought and action: liberalism, nationalism, socialism; Steam: revolution in warfare and the economy; Relations between states and nations

Europe and the wider worldContributors; Index

Notes:

First published: London : Unwin Hyman, 1990.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610327386

9781134875801

1134875800

9781134875818

1134875819

9781280327384

1280327383

9780203146170

0203146174

OCLC:

475876167