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THE AGE OF REVOLUTION AND REACTION 1789 - 1850

Charles Breunig

 

W. W. Norton Co, NYC, 1977, 304 pgs., index, readings, map, illustration, paperback

 
 

Reviewer comment This book complements Crane Brinton's A Decade of Revolution and Geoffrey Bruun's Europe and the French Imperium and carries the narrative and analysis through the first half of the19th century. The chapter titles show the content. Chapter 4 is the main one on economic developments afte the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars. Italso includes the early phases of what Dr. McCloskey terms the 'treason' of the intellectuals. On the Industrial Revolution it follows Paul Maneoux's extensive study of the early phases in his The Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century.

 
 

Chapter 1 - The French Revolution and Its Impact on Europe

 
 

Chapter 2 - Napoleon

 
 

Chapter 3 - The Concert of Europe, 1815 - 1848

 
 

Chapter 4 - The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society
Population Growth;
Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain;
The Social Imapct of the Industrial Revolution;
The Condition of the Working Classs;
Expansion of the Middle Classs;
Economic Liberalism;
The Emergence of Socialism

 
 

Chapter 5 - Restoration and Romanticism

 
 

Chapter 6 - The Transformation of the European States during the Restoration Era

 
 

Chapter 7 - The Revolutions of 1848

 

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