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The ascendancy of Europe : 1815-1914 /
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 throug...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2014.
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| Edición: | 3rd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the third edition
- Introduction
- 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
- 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
- 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
- States and nations ; The triumph of nationalism
- Challenges to nationalism
- Nationalism in the non-European world and the challenge to Europe
- Nationalism and progress
- Europe and the world ; The process of expansion
- The roots of expansion
- The results of expansion
- Armed forces and war ; Warfare in transition, 1815-1854
- Warfare transformed, 1854-1871
- Technology and mass armies, 1871-1914
- Romanticism, evolution, consciousness : the movement of ideas ; The romantic attitude
- The evolutionary credos
- The exploration of consciousness and the growth of self-doubt
- Conclusion.