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W. W. Norton Co, NYC, 1977, 304 pgs., index, readings, map,
illustration, paperback
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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.
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Chapter 1 - The French Revolution and Its Impact on Europe
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Chapter 2 - Napoleon
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Chapter 3 - The Concert of Europe, 1815 - 1848
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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
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Chapter 5 - Restoration and Romanticism
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Chapter 6 - The Transformation of the European States during the
Restoration Era
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Chapter 7 - The Revolutions of 1848
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