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Index
Cover
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the third edition
Contents
List of maps
List of tables
PART ONE: EUROPE 1800–1850
1: The quickening pace
Demographic revolution
The expansion of the market
Capitalist practices: agriculture
Capitalist practices: industry
The problem of capital
Crisis in the élite
2: Napoleonic Europe
France: revolution from above
The hegemony of Napoleon
Assault on the ancien régime
The generation of nationalism
3: Metternich’s Europe
The Vienna Settlement
The revolutionary tradition
Counter-revolution and conquest
National awakenings
Liberalism and radicalism: western Europe
Liberalism and radicalism: central and eastern Europe
4: The revolutions of 1848
The united front
Division and defeat
The springtime of peoples?
5: Hierarchies of culture
Language and education
Patterns of leisure
Religious revival
The birth of the disciplined society
The Romantic revolt
PART TWO: EUROPE 1850–1880
6: Mid-century prosperity
Urbanization
A world market
Agriculture: profit and loss
The accumulation of capital
Bourgeois dynasties
7: Nationalism and unification
Reaction: the 1850s
The Crimean War
The withdrawal of Russia
Unification: Italy
Unification: Germany
The Ausgleich
8: Revolution contained
Constitutional change
Anarchism and socialism
Stabilization: liberal
Stabilization: authoritarian
The resurgence of Russia
9: Mid-century culture
Schools
Philistinism
Religion and science
Positivism
Realism
PART THREE: EUROPE 1880–1914
10: The struggle for economic supremacy
Mass migration
The Great Depression?
Agricultural crisis
New technology
Industry: ownership
Industry: management
Industry: labour
Plutocracy
11: Problems of national integration
Socialism: northern Europe
Socialism: southern Europe
Socialism: Russia
Roman Catholicism
National minorities
Feminism and the crisis of masculinity
12: The race for empire
Colonialism
Chauvinism
Imperialism
13: The management of society
Mass education
Social welfare and social engineering
Anti-Semitism
Authoritarianism
14: Culture at the turn of the century
Mass culture
Secularization?
The unconscious
Modernism
15: The break-up of nineteenth-century Europe
1905: revolution in Russia
1905: tremors in the west
1905: Germany’s bid for power
Slav nationalism contained
The attack on privilege
The disintegration of the Ottoman Empire
The bitter pill of militarism
War against revolution
Bibliography
Chronology
The main ruling houses
Chief ministers of the major states
Index
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