Europe and the Making of Modernity 1815-1914

by Winks, Robin W.; Neuberger, Joan

• ISBN13: 9780195156225
• ISBN10: 0195156226
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This forthcoming volume will join Oxford University Press's successful series of compact, accessible, and insightful guides covering the general history of Europe from ancient times to the present. Each book in the series offers a clear outline of political history alongside discussions of social and cultural issues; an authoritative narrative that takes the latest historical interpretations into account; support for many different lecture and discussion formats; and chapter summaries, an end-of-book chronology, detailed maps, numerous illustrations, and text boxes with primary source excerpts.

Table of Contents

Maps and Boxes	ix
Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(1)
The Making of Modernity	1	(2)
The Eighteenth-century Background	3	(8)
The Enlightenment---The French Revolution
Restoration and Revolution, 1815--1840	11	(30)
The Congress of Vienna, 1814--1815	11	(7)
The Persistence of Revolution, 1820--1823	18	(9)
Serbian and Greek Independence, 1804-1829---The Decembrist Revolt in Russia, 1825
The Revolutions of 1830	27	(8)
France---National Independence in Belgium---Nationalist Revolutions in Poland, Italy, and Germany
Reform Without Revolution: Great Britain	35	(3)
The Counterrevolution in Russia	38	(3)
Romanticism	41	(23)
An Age of Feeling and Poetry	42	(9)
Music	51	(1)
Painting	52	(3)
Architecture	55	(1)
Religion and Philosophy	56	(1)
Romantic Nationalism	57	(5)
Melodrama and Popular Romanticism	62	(2)
The Industrial Age Begins	64	(29)
Precursors: Agriculture, Demography, and Markets	67	(4)
Momentum	71	(3)
Trains: The Ultimate Machine	74	(5)
Why Britain?	79	(4)
The Challenge of Industrialization in Western Europe	83	(4)
France---Germany---Italy
The Challenge of Industrialization in Eastern Europe	87	(6)
Austria---The Balkans---``Core--Periphery'' Industrialization---Russia
Social Change and Social Life	93	(32)
Class	94	(1)
Population Growth and Redistribution	95	(3)
Rural Society	98	(5)
Peasants---Rural Elites
Cities	103	(10)
Workers
Social Mobility	113	(8)
Middle Classes
Religious Minorities	121	(4)
Ideas and Ideologies	125	(28)
Conservatism	126	(4)
Liberalism	130	(9)
Economic Liberalism---Utilitarian Liberalism---Humanitarian Liberalism---Toward Democracy: The Vote
Socialism	139	(10)
Utopian Socialism---Karl Marx and Marxism
Apostles of Violence and Nonviolence	149	(2)
Anarchists---Christian Socialists and Christian Democrats
Mass Political Movements	151	(2)
The Revolutions of 1848	153	(30)
Causes	154	(6)
Nationalism in the 1840s---Political Activism---The ``Hungry Forties''
The Revolutions of 1848	160	(18)
France---Italy---Germany---The Austrian Empire---Great Britain and Russia
Consequences of 1848	178	(5)
The Modern Nation-State	183	(46)
The Crimean War	185	(3)
France: The Second Empire	188	(4)
Unification of Italy and Germany	192	(13)
Italy---Germany
The Paris Commune	205	(1)
Germany: The Nation-State	206	(3)
The Austrian Empire in the Era of the Nation-State	209	(9)
Compromise and the Dual Monarchy---The Nationality Question Under the Dual Monarchy: Austria---The Nationality Question Under the Dual Monarchy: Hungary
New States in Ottoman Europe	218	(1)
Poles of Reform	219	(10)
The Russian Empire and the Great Reforms---Great Britain and the Cult of Progress
Reason, Realism, and Respectability	229	(28)
The Economic Boom and Second Industrial Revolution	230	(8)
France and Germany---Russia and Italy---Austria-Hungary---Urbanization and Migration
Respectability	238	(3)
Darwin and Darwinism	241	(2)
Realism in the Arts	243	(14)
Literature---Music---Painting---Sculpture, Monument, and Architecture---Photography
The Age of Imperialism, 1870--1914	257	(32)
Motives	258	(4)
Money---Power---Security---Ideology
British Rule in India	262	(6)
Imperialism in East Asia	268	(2)
The Partition of Africa	270	(8)
Conflicts in Africa After Partition	278	(4)
Fashoda---The Boer War
Russia: Between Nation and Empire	282	(3)
Imperialism at Home	285	(4)
Mass Nationalism and Racism---Economic and Political Consequences of Imperialism
The Challenges of Modernity	289	(30)
City Life: Fin de Siecle and Belle Epoque	290	(9)
The Workers' Challenge	299	(3)
The Women's Challenge	302	(4)
Leisure and Mass Culture	306	(3)
The Cultural Challenge: Modernism	309	(6)
Painting---Music---The Other Arts
The Scientific Challenge: Discontinuity, Randomness, and Relativity	315	(4)
Social Sciences
Political Polarization and Conflict	319	(40)
Imperial Germany, 1880--1914	320	(4)
Great Britain: Protest on Three Fronts, 1867--1914	324	(4)
France: The Third Republic, 1870--1914	328	(7)
Italy After Unification, 1870--1914	335	(2)
Russian Reaction and Revolution, 1881--1914	337	(7)
The Revolution of 1905
The Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1867--1914	344	(6)
Conflicts Among Nationalities
The Road to War	350	(9)
Chronology	359	(9)
Suggested Readings	368	(11)
Index	379