Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 317 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents |
Ideas shape the modern state -- War, revolution, and the modern state -- Industrialization shapes the nation-state -- War, revolution and the nation-state |
Summary |
Europe 1715-1919 explores the tumultuous period in European history between the Age of Enlightenment and World War I. By integrating political, social, economic, and cultural history, Shirley Elson Roessler and Reny Miklos provide an entertaining and comprehensive account of the emergence of modern Europe. With clear and eloquent prose, the book explains the ideas of the Enlightenment and their effect on the social fabric of Europe, the watershed of the French Revolution, the rise and fall of Napoleon, the advances of the Industrial Revolution, and the centrifugal forces of nationalism that le |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-296) and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
HISTORY.
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Intellectual life
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SUBJECT |
Europe -- History -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045702
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Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045728
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Europe -- History -- 1789-1900. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045705
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Europe -- History -- 1871-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045713
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Europe -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045729
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Subject |
Europe
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Miklos, Reinhold, 1943-
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ISBN |
9780742568792 |
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0742568792 |
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9780742527669 |
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0742527662 |
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9780742527676 |
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0742527670 |
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1282497480 |
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9781282497481 |
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9786612497483 |
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6612497483 |
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