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The Revolutionary Era, 1789–1850 3e

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: The French Revolution
  • CRISES OF THE OLD REGIME
    • The Paradioxical Legacies of Absolute Monarchy
    • Fiscal Crisis and Political Collapse
  • REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS
    • The Revolution of the Rights of Man, 1789
    • Constitutional Monarchy, 1789–1792
    • The Outbreak of War and the Abolition of Monarchy, 1792
    • The Triumph of the Jacobins, 1792–1793
    • From Terror to Reaction, 1793–1794
    • The Directory 1795–1799
  • REVOLUTIONARY CULTURE
    • Mobilization of the Masses
    • The Cult of Reason
    • The Rights of Women and Ethnic Minorities
    • A Bourgeois Revolution?
  • Chapter 2: The Napoleonic Era
  • THE CONSULATE, 1799–1804
  • NAPOLEAN’S ADMINISTRATION
    • The Suppression of Disent
    • Peace with the Church: The Concordat
  • INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
    • The End of the Second Coalition: Peace with Austria and Britain
    • The Reorganization of Germany, 1803
    • Haitian Independence
  • THE EMPIRE 1804–1814
    • The Proclamation of the Empire, 1804
    • War with Britain and the Third Coalition
    • Defeat of Prussia and Russia: The Treaties of Tilsit, 1807
    • Napolean’s Grand Empire
    • The Continental System, 1806
    • The Peninsular War, 1808–1813
    • The Short War with Austria, 1809
    • The Empire in 1810
    • The Invasion of Russia, 1812
    • The War of Libersation, 1813–1814
    • The Bourbon Restoration and the Hundred Days
  • THE ACHIEVEMENT AND LEGACY OF NAPOLEAN
  • Chapter 3: The Industrial Revolution and the Remaking of European Society
  • THE ORIGINS OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
    • Conditions for "Industrial Takeoff"
    • Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain
    • Industrialization in Continental Europe
  • THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF INDUSTRIALIZATION
    • The Condition of the Working Classes
    • Expansion of the Middle Classes
    • The Mechanization of Everyday Life
  • THE QUEST FOR NEW COMMUNITIES
    • City and Suburb
    • Family Life
    • Class Identities
  • POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES
    • Liberalism
    • Utopian Socialism
    • Communism
  • Chapter 4: Restoration and Romanticism
  • THE SETTLEMENT OF 1815 AND THE CONCERT OF EUROPE
    • The Congress of Vienna
    • The Second Treaty of Paris and the Holy Alliance
    • The Conference System and the Revolutions in Southern Europe, 1820–1823
    • The Settlement of 1815 Appraised
  • ROMANTIC CULTURE AND POLITICS
    • Romanticism
    • Conservatism
    • Nationalism
  • Chapter 5: Political and Social Transformations, 1815–1848
  • REACTION AND REFORM IN GREAT BRITAIN
    • Tory Rule, 1815–1830
    • Parliamentary Reform, Free Trade and Chartism, 1830–1848
  • THE RESTORATION AND THE JULY MONARCHY IN FRANCE
    • The Bourbon Restoration and the Revolution of 1830
    • Louis Philippe and the July Monarchy, 1830–1848
  • INTERNATIONAL REVERBERATIONS OF THE REVOLUTION OF 1830
    • Belgian Independence
    • The Polish Uprising of 1830–1831
  • REPRESSION IN CENTRAL EUROPE
    • The German Confederation, 1815–1832
    • Economic De velopments in the German States during the Vorm”rz Era, 1830–1848
    • Metternich and the Austrian Empire, 1815–1848
  • ITALY: THE RISORGIMENTO , 1815–1848
  • THE GREEK REVOLT AND THE DECLINE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
    • The Greek Independence Movement, 1821–1832
    • The "Eastern Question," 1832–1841
  • THE PERSISTENCE OF ABSOLUTISM IN RUSSIA
    • Alexander I and the Decebrist Revolt of 1825
    • Russia u nder Nicholas I, 1825–1855
  • CONCLUSION
  • Chapter 6: The Revolutions of 1848
  • THE FEBRUARY REVOLUTION IN FRANCE
  • THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1848 IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
    • Prussia
    • The Frankfurt Parliament
    • The Habsburg Empire
  • THE REVOLUTION OF 1848 IN ITALY
  • CONSQUENCES OF THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1848

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