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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784097503321

Titolo

Themes in modern European history, 1780-1830 / / edited by Pamela M. Pilbeam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1995

ISBN

1-134-85340-8

0-415-10172-7

1-280-53932-1

9786610539321

1-134-85341-6

0-203-18514-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

Themes in modern European history

Altri autori (Persone)

PilbeamPamela M. <1941->

Disciplina

940.2/7

Soggetti

Europe History 1789-1815

Europe History 1815-1848

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Themes in Modern European History 1780-1830; Copyright; Contents; Maps; Figures; Tables; Notes on contributors; Chapter 1. Introducing Europe in revolutionand war; Chapter 2. The French Revolution; Chapter 3. Napoleon Bonaparte and theFrench Revolution; Chapter 4. The eastern empires from the ancien regime to the challenge of the French wars, 1780-c.1806; Chapter 5. The eastern empires from the challenge of Napoleon to the Restoration, c. 1806-30; Chapter 6. The 'Restoration' of westernEurope, 1814-15; Chapter 7. Revolutionary movements in western Europe, 1814-30

Chapter 8. The challenge of industrializationChapter 9. The growth of population; Chapter 10. European society in revolution; Chapter 11. Reason and romanticism: currents of social and political thought; Conclusion: Liberty - and order?; Chronology of main events; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Themes in Modern European History 1780-1830 is an authoritative and lively exploration of a period dominated by events which have shaped modern Europe. In a series of articles, six leading academics present some controversial conclusions:* the east/west contrast in Europe



today has more to do with responses to the French Revolution of 1789 than the Russian Revolution of 1917* the conservative Europe of 1814 was the product of the Romantic imagnation, not a `Restoration' of the old regimeSpanning political, social, economic and demographic facets of revolutions, this is