| Reviews |
| - '...this volume in the Short Oxford History of Europe provides an expert and entertaining overview of the principal developments...for a readable history written by specialists The Nineteenth Century is hard to beat.' - Miles Taylor, King's College London
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| Description | | - One of the first two volumes launching the major new Short Oxford History of Europe series which will become a core seller on History lists.
- Series editor is Professor TCW Blanning, Professor of Modern European History, Cambridge
- The contributors (who include dynamic younger figures as well as grandees) are all top names in the field and together make up an enterprising and formidable volume
- Not a narrative history, but a series of analytical surveys of society, politics, economics, culture, etc., each by a leading scholar at the cutting edge of historiography
- Chapters linked together by a substantial introduction and conclusion, by internal cross-references, and by a detailed chronological table
- Coherent, concise, comprehensive, authoritative, provocative, and challenging: a book which can't be overlooked
- The period is one of the most lively studies amongst history courses internationally
| The complete Short Oxford History of Europe
(series editor, Professor TCW Blanning) will cover the history of Europe from Classical Greece to the present in eleven volumes. In each, experts write to their strengths tackling the key issues including society, economy, religion, politics, and culture head-on in chapters that will be at once wide-ranging surveys and searching analyses. Each
book is specifically designed with the non-specialist reader in mind; but the authority of the contributors and the vigour of the interpretations will make them necessary and challenging reading for fellow academics across a range of disciplines.
Europe changed more rapidly and more radically during the nineteenth century than during any prior period. A population explosion, a communications
revolution, mass literacy, secularisation, urbanisation, Imperialism - these were just a few of the many ways in which the lives of Europeans of every class were dramatically changed. It was the century when most of the ideologies of the modern world - liberalism, conservatism, nationalism, socialism, and racism - came of age. Yet in some respects, especially international relations, there was a
surprising degree of continuity and harmony. In six pithy chapters experts on the political, international, social, economic, cultural, and imperial history of the period address and answer the big questions of the period.
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Readership: Undergraduate students of European History; A-level students; scholars, lecturers, and schoolteachers; the general reader. It is important contextual reading for students of literature, art, and European Studies.
| Contents |
List of Contributors
Introduction: The End of the Old Regime
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T.C.W. Blanning
Politics
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Robert Tombs
Society
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Colin Heywood
The European Economy, 1815-1914
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Niall Ferguson
Culture
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James Sheehan
International Politics, Peace, and War, 1815-1914
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Paul W. Schroeder
Overseas Expansion, Imperialism, and Empire, 1815-1914
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A.G. Hopkins
Conclusion
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T.C.W. Blanning
Further Reading
Chronology
Maps
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by T. C. W. Blanning, Professor of Modern European History, Cambridge University
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