Nineteenth Century Europe The Revolution of Life

by Loubere, Leo A.

• ISBN13: 9780132210867
• ISBN10: 013221086X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-07-26
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

For courses in Nineteenth-Century European History. A general descriptive and analytical overview of European history from 1814-1914, this text reveals the major trends, explores the regional differences within those trends, and highlights the dynamic forces in human societies.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(7)
The Geographic Perspective	8	(11)
Europe's Physical Geography	8	(5)
Political Geography	13	(6)
The French Revolution and Europe	19	(16)
The Revolutionary Phase, 1789--99	19	(3)
The Imperial Phase, 1800--15	22	(3)
Political-Territorial Settlements, 1814--15: Balance of Power	25	(5)
The Concert of Europe	30	(5)
Reaction Triumphant: Policies of the Victor States	35	(18)
The Forces of Continuity	35	(3)
Revival in Central Europe	38	(2)
Prussia: The Military State	40	(3)
Austria: The Multinational State	43	(2)
Russia: The Deceptive Giant	45	(4)
Liberalism Triumphant	49	(4)
The Revolutionary Powers	53	(17)
Restoration in France	53	(8)
The July Monarchy, Another Experiment	61	(4)
Restoration in the Mediterranean: Spain and Italy	65	(3)
The New States	68	(2)
Europe's Belly: Agriculture	70	(13)
Traditional Husbandry	70	(3)
Agricultural Revolution in Britain	73	(3)
Agriculture on the Continent: Western Europe	76	(4)
Eastern Europe	80	(3)
Europe as Workshop	83	(16)
Preconditions of Britain's Industrial Revolution	83	(2)
The Industrial Revolution: Textiles	85	(5)
Traditional Transport	90	(2)
Metallurgy and the Transport Revolution	92	(5)
The Economic Conditions at Midcentury	97	(2)
Society in Transition	99	(16)
Population Explosion	99	(4)
Early Urbanization	103	(2)
Life in Urban Communities	105	(4)
Conditions of Labor: Management Level	109	(3)
Conditions of Labor: Manual Level	112	(3)
Midcentury Crisis	115	(18)
Forms of Collective Action before 1848	115	(2)
Changing of Revolutionary Goals	117	(1)
The Revolutionary Impulse in Latin Europe	118	(5)
Revolution in Central Europe: Hapsburg Empire	123	(3)
Central Europe: Germany	126	(1)
Waning of the French Republic	127	(2)
Restoration in Central Europe	129	(2)
Conclusions	131	(2)
Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe	133	(20)
Austria: Key to Central Europe	133	(1)
Italy: A Model of State Making	134	(5)
Germany: The Giant with Feet of Steel	139	(6)
Austria: The Dual Monarchy	145	(1)
Russia: A Brief Era of Reform	146	(7)
Liberalism on the March: Slow Step	153	(19)
Bonapartism: A French Malaise	153	(7)
Great Britain: Rock of Stability	160	(4)
Spain: Endemic Malaise	164	(2)
The Balkans: State Making, Small Scale	166	(4)
The Northern Periphery	170	(2)
Economic Prosperity	172	(16)
A Golden Age: Financial Innovations	172	(2)
Agriculture: Feeding More Mouths	174	(4)
Industrial Development: Rich Western Nations	178	(3)
Industrial Development: Poor Eastern Nations	181	(1)
Commerce: An Era of Free Trade	182	(2)
Taxes: The Inequality of Life	184	(1)
Cities: Patterns of Growth	184	(4)
A Conflict of Cultures: Rationalism versus Romanticism	188	(16)
The Quarrel of Ideologies	188	(1)
Economics: The Dismal Science	189	(4)
Modernization, Technocracy, and Authority	193	(2)
Romanticism	195	(4)
Romantic Individualism	199	(1)
Romantic Socialism	200	(4)
The Culture of Materialism	204	(15)
Culture and Society	204	(2)
Matter and Culture	206	(3)
Medical Science	209	(5)
Science and Literature	214	(5)
The Information Revolution	219	(18)
Literacy	219	(1)
Schooling: Germany	220	(2)
Schooling: France	222	(3)
Schooling: Great Britain	225	(3)
Schooling: Russia	228	(1)
Education and Society	229	(1)
Periodicals	230	(3)
Books and High Culture	233	(1)
Popular Culture	234	(3)
Modernization of Domesticity	237	(16)
The Family: From Full to Empty Nest	237	(3)
Conjugal Relations	240	(3)
Women: Bondage and Liberation	243	(7)
Children: Poverty and Progress	250	(3)
End-of-Century Politics: Persistent Autocracy	253	(16)
The German Empire	253	(6)
Austria-Hungary	259	(1)
Nationalism in the Balkans	260	(3)
Russia: The End of Reform	263	(4)
Political Culture: Center and East	267	(2)
End-of-Century Politics: Liberalism Triumphant	269	(22)
France: The Republican Solution	269	(9)
The United Kingdom: Unrelenting Reform	278	(7)
The Mediterranean: Italy and Trasformismo	285	(3)
The Mediterranean: Spain as a Lost Cause	288	(1)
Peripheral States: The Small Fry	289	(1)
Conclusions	290	(1)
Second Coming of Socialism	291	(11)
Karl Marx: The Red Specter	291	(2)
Organization of Labor: Great Britain	293	(3)
Fragmented Socialism: France	296	(3)
The Model Marxists: Germany and Russia	299	(3)
Apex of Capitalism	302	(16)
Industrial Balance: Great Britain	302	(3)
The Small Producers' Paradise: France	305	(1)
The New Colossus: Germany	306	(1)
The Peripheral States: Slow and Not Always Sure	307	(2)
Agriculture: A Loaf of Bread, A Jug of Wine	309	(3)
International Trade: Return to Protection	312	(1)
Demography: The S Curve	313	(5)
Europe's Fin de Siecle	318	(16)
Europe as a Cultural Unity	318	(1)
Revolt against Positivism	319	(4)
Integral Nationalism	323	(1)
The Condition of Europe	324	(3)
Modernizing Education	327	(1)
Condition of Women	328	(2)
Modern Social Structure: The Bourgeoisie	330	(1)
Modern Social Structure: Laborers	331	(3)
The Diplomacy of Imperialism	334	(14)
Trouble Spots	334	(2)
Imperialism: Second Mal de Siecle	336	(7)
The Triple Entente: A Diplomatic Revolution	343	(3)
The End of an Epoch	346	(2)
Suggested Readings	348	(7)
Index	355