The Nineteenth Century: Europe 1789-1914

In the nineteenth century Europe changed more rapidly and more radically than during any prior period. These six specially commissioned chapters by eminent historians offer the student and general reader a unique approach to understanding one of the most complex periods of modern history, addressing all the major issues in Europe's political, social, economic, cultural, international, and Imperial history.

In the nineteenth century Europe changed more rapidly and more radically than during any prior period. These six, specially commissioned chapters by eminent historians offer the student and general reader a unique approach to understanding one of the most complex periods of modern history, addressing all the major issues in Europe's political, social, economic, cultural, international, and Imperial history.

Times Literary Supplement - Eugen Weber

Compendious, informed, instructive, readable and easy to handle...coulourful and lively essays...Tim Blanning and his colleagues have done justice to the fraught, fantastic times they have had to grapple with.

T.C.W. Blanning is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Cambridge.