Barricades and Borders Gildea Robert Professor of Modern French History University of Oxford
Barricades and Borders Gildea Robert Professor of Modern French History University of Oxford This is a comprehensive survey of European history from the coup d'etat of Napoleon Bonaparte in France to…
Specifikacia Barricades and Borders Gildea Robert Professor of Modern French History University of Oxford
Barricades and Borders Gildea Robert Professor of Modern French History University of Oxford
This is a comprehensive survey of European history from the coup d'etat of Napoleon Bonaparte in France to the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand at Sarajevo, which led to the First World War. Going beyond traditional political and diplomatic history, the book incorporates the results of recent research on population movements, the expansion of markets, the accumulation of capital, social mobility, education, changing patterns of leisure, religious practices, and intellectual and artistic developments.The work falls into three chronological sections. It concentrates on the twin themes of revolution and nationalism, which often combined in the early part of the century but which increasingly became rival creeds.
The first, starting in 1800 (rather than the more usual 1815) follows the build-up of the revolutionary currents which were eventually going to erupt in the Year of