The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern Europe

Editor: T.C.W.Blanning

Paperback: 376 pages

Publisher: Oxford University Press;New edition (11 Jan. 2001)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0192854267

ISBN-13: 9780192854261

Dimensions: 24.6 x 2.2 x 18.9 cm

內容簡介

Written by eleven contributors of international standing, this book covers Europe's turbulent history from the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the present day. Attractively illustrated with over 200 pictures in colour and black and white, it provides a better understanding of modern Europe, how it came to be what it is, and even where it may be going in the future.

目 錄

Introduction;

1.Revolution from Above and Below: European Politics from the French Revolution to the First World War;

2.The Industrialization of Modern Europe,1750-1914; 

3.Military Modernization,1789-1918; 

4.From Orders to Classes: European Society in the Nineteenth Century; 

5.The Commercialization and Sacralization of European Culture in the Nineteenth Century; 

6.The Great Civil War: European Politics,1914-45; 

7.The Fall and Rise of the European Economy in the Twentieth Century; 

8.Warfare in Europe since 1918; 

9.European Society in the Twentieth Century;

10.From Modernism to Post-Modernism;

11.Europe Divided and Reunited,1945-95;

Further Reading; 

Chronology;

Maps; 

Acknowledgement of Sources; 

Index

作者介紹

T. C. W. Blanning is Professor of Modern European History at Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College. His books include Rise and Fall of the French Revolution, 1789-99 (University of Chicago Press, 1996); French Revolution: Class War or Culture Clash? (Macmillan, 1997); French Revolutionary Wars, 1787-1802 (Arnold, 1996); Origins of the French Revolutionary Wars (Longman, 1986).