The Ascendancy of Europe : 1815-1914.

Cover -- The Ascendancy of Europe, 1815-1914 -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Introduction -- 1. The political and economic balance of power -- The concert of Europe, 1815-c. 1850 -- The balance of power revolutionized, c. 1850-1871 -- Germany and Europe, 1871-1914 -- 1914: the end of the old Europe -- 2. The mechanics of government: freedom and authority -- The old régime and its adversaries, 1815-1848 -- The revolutions of 1848 -- The age of reconstruction, 1849-1871 -- The growth of state power, 187I-1914 -- 3. Economy and society: the new and the old -- The growth of population -- The growth of industry and the emergence of industrial man -- The development of transport and its implications -- An age of cities -- The new society and the old -- The weight of the past: traditional Europe -- 4. States and nations -- The triumph of nationalism -- Challenges to nationalism -- Nationalism in the non-European world and the challenge to Europe -- Nationalism and progress -- 5. Europe and the world -- The process of expansion -- The roots of expansion -- The results of expansion -- 6. Armed forces and war -- Warfare in transition, 1815-1854 -- Warfare transformed, 1854-1871 -- Technology and mass armies, 1871-1914 -- 7. Romanticism, evolution, consciousness: the movement of ideas -- The romantic attitude -- The evolutionary credos -- The exploration of consciousness and the growth of self-doubt -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

The new edition of this seminal history of Europe's century of global ascendancy has been thoroughly revised throughout and includes a new introduction and bibliography. More than a narrative of major events, this is a series of challenging analytical surveys on a comparative and continent-wide basis. Giving full weight not to social and intellectual factors as well as political and economic ones, the survey provides students with an invaluable guide to a notoriously complex period. Suitable for 2nd year undergraduates upwards studying 19th Century Europe and Revolutionary Europe.

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