The Oxford History of Modern Europe

by Blanning, T. C. W.

• ISBN13: 9780192853714
• ISBN10: 0192853716
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780191578342
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

Written by eleven contributors of international standing, this book offers a readable and authoritative account of Europe's turbulent history from the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the present day. Each chapter portrays both change and continuity, revolutions andstability, and covers the political, economic, social, cultural, and military life of Europe. This book provides a better understanding of modern Europe, how it came to be what it is, and where it may be going in the future.

Author Biography

T. C. W. Blanning is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge and the author of many books, including several definitive works on the French Revolution.

Table of Contents

List of Plates	vii
List of Maps	ix
List of Contributors	x
Introduction	1	(14)
T. C. W. Blanning
Revolution from Above and Below: European Politics from the French Revolution to the First World War	15	(31)
John Roberts
The Industrialization of Modern Europe, 1750-1914	46	(30)
Clive Trebilcock
Military Modernization, 1789-1918	76	(25)
Hew Strachan
From Orders to Classes: European Society in the Nineteenth Century	101	(25)
Pamela Pilbeam
The Commercialization and Sacralization of European Culture in the Nineteenth Century	126	(27)
T. C. W. Blanning
The Great Civil War: European Politics, 1914-1945	153	(33)
Paul Preston
The Fall and Rise of the European Economy in the Twentieth Century	186	(28)
Harold James
Warfare in Europe since 1918	214	(20)
Richard Overy
European Society in the Twentieth Century	234	(26)
Richard Bessel
From Modernism to Post-Modernism	260	(22)
Martin Jay
Europe Divided and Reunited, 1945-1995	282	(25)
David Reynolds
Further Reading	307	(27)
Chronology	334	(21)
Maps	355	(14)
Index	369