Europe 1715-1919: From Enlightenment to World War

CONTENTS......Page 9
MAPS......Page 11
ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 13
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 15
INTRODUCTION......Page 17
THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT......Page 19
SOCIETY AND CULTURE......Page 36
SOCIETY AND ECONOMICS......Page 49
SOCIETY AND POLITICS......Page 58
NOTES......Page 73
INTERNATIONAL RIVALRY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY......Page 75
OLD REGIMES UNDER STRESS......Page 88
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION......Page 104
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE......Page 118
THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA AND THE HUNDRED DAYS......Page 129
NOTE......Page 134
REVOLUTION IN INDUSTRY AND LABOR......Page 135
POLITICS IN THE AGE OF METTERNICH......Page 145
REFORM AND REVOLUTION......Page 155
INDUSTRY TRANSFORMS SOCIETY......Page 168
THE CHALLENGES OF NATION BUILDING......Page 187
THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE: 1870–1914......Page 201
THE ROAD TO CONFLICT......Page 218
THE GREAT WAR: 1914–1918......Page 231
THE END OF THE GREAT WAR......Page 256
NOTES......Page 266
DOCUMENT I: BARON CHARLES DE SECONDAT DE MONTESQUIEU......Page 267
DOCUMENT II: CESARE BECCARIA......Page 270
DOCUMENT III: ADAM SMITH......Page 271
DOCUMENT IV: MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT......Page 273
DOCUMENT V: FREDERICH THE GREAT’S ADDRESS TO HIS GENERALS AND STAFF OFFICERS ON DECEMBER 3, 1757, BEFORE HIS VICTORY AT LEUTHEN......Page 275
DOCUMENT VI: MARIA THERESA’S LETTER TO HER SON REGARDING THE PARTITION OF POLAND......Page 276
DOCUMENT VII: GEORGE III’S LETTER TO LORD NORTH ON THE NECESSITY OF SUBDUING THE AMERICAN COLONIES (JUNE 11, 1779)......Page 277
DOCUMENT VIII: VISCOUNT NOAILLES’S SPEECH IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, AUGUST 4, 1789......Page 278
DOCUMENT IX: THE REVOLUTIONARY CALENDAR......Page 279
DOCUMENT X: MADAME DE REMUSAT COMMENTING ON ATTITUDES TOWARD NAPOLEON BONAPARTE......Page 280
DOCUMENT XI: TESTIMONY GIVEN BEFORE THE ASHLEY MINES COMMISSION, WHICH INVESTIGATED LABOR CONDITIONS......Page 281
DOCUMENT XII: PROCLAMATION OF INDEPENDENCE ISSUED BY THE GREEK NATIONAL ASSEMBLY......Page 284
DOCUMENT XIII: KARL MARX AND FRIEDRICH ENGELS......Page 285
DOCUMENT XIV: THE PEOPLE’S CHARTER, 1842......Page 289
DOCUMENT XVI: A CONGRESS OF LABOR LEADERS ISSUE A SOCIALIST PROGRAM AT GOTHA IN 1875......Page 291
DOCUMENT XVII: IN 1851 HERBERT SPENCER EXPRESSES THE VIEW THAT UNIMPEDED STRUGGLE IS A REQUISITE FOR PROGRESS......Page 292
DOCUMENT XVIII: VICTOR EMMANUEL’S ADDRESS AT THE OPENING SESSION OF THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT ON FEBRUARY 18, 1861......Page 294
DOCUMENT XIX: THE EMS TELEGRAM......Page 295
DOCUMENT XX: ALEXANDER II ON THE EMANCIPATION OF THE RUSSIAN SERFS......Page 296
DOCUMENT XXI: LETTER FROM THE “EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE” TO TSAR ALEXANDER III......Page 297
DOCUMENT XXII: THE AUSTRIAN ULTIMATUM TO SERBIA DELIVERED ON JULY 23, 1914......Page 298
DOCUMENT XXIII: PRINCE REGENT ALEXANDER OF SERBIA’S TELEGRAM SENT TO TSAR NICHOLAS ON JULY 24, 1914......Page 300
DOCUMENT XXIV: PRIVATE DONALD FRASER......Page 301
DOCUMENT XXV: WOODROW WILSON......Page 305
DOCUMENT XXVI: LENIN’S REBUTTAL OF ARGUMENTS MADE BY KAMENIEV AND RIAZANOV, BOLSHEVIK OPPONENTS OF INSURRECTION, AS REPORTED BY JOHN REED......Page 307
DOCUMENT XXVII: THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES......Page 309
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 311
INDEX......Page 315
ABOUT THE AUTHORS......Page 335