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The Age of Revolution: Europe, 1789-1848
by Eric Hobsbawm  Publisher Comments This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence of new technologies, sciences, and ideologies, with vast intellectual daring and aphoristic elegance. Part of Eric Hobsbawm's epic four-volume...
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The Age of Empire, 1875-1914
by Eric J Hobsbawm Publisher Comments Discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences, and cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution to the First World War....
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Napoleon and Europe #01: The End of the Old Order: Napoleon and Europe, 1801-1805
by Frederick Kagan Publisher Comments In this monumental account and brilliant new analysis of the Napoleonic era in Europe, Frederick W. Kagan, distinguished historian and military policy expert, reveals the complex interaction of continental politics and war that dominated Europe in the...
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Age of Capital 1848 1875
by E J Hobsbawm Synopsis A major treatment of the crucial years 1848-1875 - a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism throught the world. In the 1860s a new word entered the economic and political vocabulary of the world: "capitalism"; the triumph of a society which...
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Dreams of Iron and Steel: Seven Wonders of the Modern Age, from the Building of the London Sewers to the Panama Canal (P.S.)
by Cadbury Publisher Comments A world that had changed little from the Middle Ages was altered beyond recognition by the pioneering genius of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Dreams of Iron and Steel, acclaimed historian Deborah Cadbury tells the heroic tale of the...
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War and Social Change in Modern Europe: The Great Transformation Revisited
by Sandra Halperin Publisher Comments Focuses on the interrelationship of social forces, industrial expansion, and conflict in Europe between 1789 and 1945....
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The War of Wars: The Great European Conflict 1793 - 1815
by Robert Harvey Publisher Comments At the turn of the 18th century the greatest nations in Europe, separated by only 21 miles of water, offered history two distinct ideals that would shape the new century: England was a democratic, constitutional monarchy; while France had suffered the...
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The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
by Kenneth Pomeranz Publisher Comments "Pomeranz uses that European invention--economics--to overturn Eurocentrism, establishing beyond cavil a New Fact in our world. Never again will Europeans imagine they stood alone in the doorway of economic growth. Pomeranz and his colleagues in the new...
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Birth of the Modern : World Society 1815-1830 (91 Edition)
by Paul Johnson Publisher Comments < P> From the prizewinning author of < I> Modern Times< /I> comes an extraordinary chronicle of the period that laid the foundations of the modern world....
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Revolutions of 1848: A Social History
by Priscilla Robertson Review The book is a model performance in formulating and executing what we know as 'the new history.'...
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The Industrial Revolution, 1760-1830
by T S Ashton Publisher Comments The Industrial Revolution has sometimes been regarded as a catastrophe which desecrated the English landscape and brought social oppression and appalling physical hardship to the workers. In Ashton's classic account, however, it is presented as an...
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Rebel Giants: The Revolutionary Lives of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin
by David R Contosta Synopsis February 12, 2009, will mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of two of the most extraordinary and influential men in recent historyAbraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. Contosta makes a compelling case that by studying the similarities (along with the...
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Pleasure Wars
by Peter Gay Publisher Comments The Victorians we meet in this volume range from the capitalists in the top tier of the bourgeoisie, eager to be recognized as gentlemen, to the clerks and craftsmen fearful of sinking into the proletariat. Peter Gay's aim throughout this sweeping work...
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The Furies: Violence and Terror in the French and Russian Revolutions
by Arno J Mayer Publisher Comments The great romance and fear of bloody revolution--strange blend of idealism and terror--have been superseded by blind faith in the bloodless expansion of human rights and global capitalism. Flying in the face of history, violence is dismissed as rare...
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The World in 1800
by Olivier Bernier Publisher Comments PRAISE FOR The World in 1800 Olivier Bernier' s richly detailed, engaging, and elegant book offers a splendid refresher course on a pivotal moment in world history- the dawn of the modern era. - Francine du Plessix Gray Elegantly written. - The New York...
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European Imperialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
by Woodruff D Smith Publisher Comments This book presents an overview of Europe's imperialist career from the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815 to the present; in other words, from the establishment of Britain's ascendency as the major power in the world and the head of Europe's largest...
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Dreams of Iron and Steel: Seven Wonders of the Nineteenth Century, from the Building of the London Sewers to the Panama Canal
by Deborah Cadbury Publisher Comments “ Deborah Cadbury is a stylish writer and she describes the splendours and miseries of these wonders in their true colours and with understanding of the ethics and aspirations of their times.”...
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Vienna 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna
by David King Publisher Comments “Reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it has everything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is an impressively researched and important story.” —David Fromkin, author of Europe’s Last Summer Vienna, 1814 is an...
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The War of Wars: The Epic Struggle Between Britain and France 1789-1815
by Robert Harvey Publisher Comments At the turn of the 18th century the greatest nations in Europe offered history two distinct ideals that would shape the new century: England was a democratic, constitutional monarchy; while France had suffered the cataclysm of Revolution that ripped the...
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Age of Empire 1875 1914
by Eric Hobsbawm Synopsis The finale to Eric Hobsbawn's study of the 19th century, "The Age of Empire" covers the era of Western imperialism and examines the forces that swept the world to the outbreak of World War I - and shaped modern society....
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