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Europe 1880-1945.
Suitable for 19th and 20th century Europe/modern Europe undergraduate courses. This well-established and immensely successful book provides a standard introduction to the subject by one of Britain's most popular historians. Social, economic and social history are skillfully integrated within a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Edición: | 3rd ed. |
| Colección: | General history of Europe.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of abbreviations and acknowledgements; Preface; Maps; 1 What this book is about; European and world history; Perspectives; 2 Europe in 1880; States and peoples: Europe's political organization; Population structure and trends; Mortality; Towns; The economy before 1914: its foundations; Agriculture; Industry; The movement of the economy 1880-1914; Overall expansion; The 'advanced' economies; Transport; The machinery of capitalism; Europe and the world: the domination of her culture; Colonies; Europe's place in the world economy.
- Revolutionary influences spreading from EuropeVitality of European civilization; 3 The ancien régime; Society: institutions and assumptions, 'market' and 'status' societies; Elites and masses; The diffusion of bourgeois ideas and standards; Politics: acceptance of the sovereign state; Monarchy; Nationalism; Racialism; Antisemitism; Spread of formal democracy; Increase of legislation; Religion; Anticlericalism and Roman Catholicism; Leo XIII; Protestantism; Jewry; 4 International competition, 1880-1901; The setting of international relations: the sources of rivalry; Armies; Navies.
- The roots of policy in the great powersCommon assumptions; Public opinion and foreign policy; Bismarck's Europe: the Berlin settlement; Bismarck's alliances; The Egyptian question; Balkan troubles; Austro-Russian rivalry; The beginning of imperial rivalry, 1880-90: the new imperialism; Anglo-French rivalry; The 'scramble for Africa'; Anglo-Russian tension in Central Asia; Popular feeling; Imperialism and capitalism; Realignments in the 1890s: the Franco-Russian alliance; Austro-Russian relaxation; Great Britain's isolation; The Far East; Fashoda; 5 Before 1914: Constitutional states.
- The United Kingdom: political institutions and ideasParty struggles; Ireland; Social legislation; The labour movement; Queen Victoria dies; The House of Lords struggle; Social unrest and suffragettes; Ireland again; France: social foundations of the Republic; Political institutions; Divisions; Boulanger; The Ralliement; Dreyfus; Church and state; Spain and Italy: their similarities; Contrasts; Spanish politics; The growth of social unrest; Catalonia; Italy's divisions; The problem of the south; Depretis and Crispi; Giolitti; 6 Autocracy and conservatism; Imperial Russia: the peasants.
- The tsarsOfficialdom and arbitrary rule; Terrorism and repression; Industrial change; Social Democracy; The 1905 revolution; The Dumas; Stolypin; The Habsburg Monarchy: the dual structure; National problems; Hungary; Franz Joseph and the politicians; Taaffe; The South Slav problem; Imperial Germany: its achievement; Prussia; Sham constitutionalism; Bismarck; The SPD; William II; German chauvinism and conservatism; 7 Anti-traditional forces; Intellectual and cultural: the natural sciences; Relativity; Psychology; Popular education; Innovation in the arts; Irrationalism.