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Preface
History of Modern Europe: An Overview
1. The French Revolution
• Conservatism, Liberalism and Radicalism • The Fall of the
Bastille • Background to the Fall of Bastille: Causes of the French
Revolution • Phases of the French Revolution • Women
in the French Revolution • Art and Culture in the French
Revolution: Democratisation of Polity and Academies • A
Historiography of the French Revolution • Impact of the
French Revolution: A Short Review
2. Napoleon Bonaparte
• Napoleon: The Early Years • Napoleon’s Coup • Reforms in Internal Administration • Napoleon: Son of
the Revolution or Destroyer of its Spirit? • The First French
Empire • The Continental System • Napoleon: The
Fall • Napoleon and the Historians
3. The Age of Revolutions (1815–1848)
• Background of the Revolutions of 1830 and 1848 • The
Revolutions of 1830 • The Revolutions of 1848 • Why Did the Revolutions of 1848 Fail? • The Features
and Pattern of the Revolutions of 1848 • The Legacy of the
Revolutions of 1848
4. The Industrial Revolution in Britain
• The First Industrial Revolution• Historians Interpreting
the First Industrial Revolution
5. Industrial Revolution on the Continent
• The Industrial Revolution in France • The Industrial
Revolution in Germany • The Industrial Revolution in
Russia • The Impact of Industrialisation • Women in
the Industrial Revolution
6. Socialism, Marxism and Utopia: International Working-Class Movements
• Socialism and its Many Varieties • The German Socialist
Movement • Socialist Movements in Other Countries
7. Parliamentary and Institutional Reforms in Britain: Chartists and Suffragettes
• From the Magna Carta to the Establishment of the
Parliament • The British Parliament Consolidates its
Power • The Reform Bill of 1832 and Franchise • The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 • Repeal of
the Corn Laws • The Chartist Movement • The
Emergence of Trade Unions • The Reform Act of 1867 • The Movement for Women’s Suffrage • Further Stages of
the Evolution of the Parliamentary System
8. Culture and Society: 1789–1850s
• Popular Consumption of Culture: Neo Classical Art, Romanticism
and Realism in Art and Literature • The City in Industrial
Europe
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