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Author Elson Roessler, Shirley, 1942-

Title Europe, 1715-1919 : from enlightenment to world war / Shirley Elson Roessler and Reny Miklos
Published Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2003

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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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Subject HISTORY.
Intellectual life
SUBJECT Europe -- History -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045702
Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045728
Europe -- History -- 1789-1900. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045705
Europe -- History -- 1871-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045713
Europe -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045729
Subject Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Miklos, Reinhold, 1943-
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