Contents

Illustrations ................................7
Preface....................................9
Introduction.................................13

PART ONE: REVOLUTIONARY PRELUDE
1. 'The Springtime of Peoples'...........................21

PART TWO: DEVELOPMENTS
2. The Great Boom..................................43
3. The World Unified...............................64
4. Conflicts and War.................................88
5. Building Nations......................................103
6. The Forces of Democracy...........................122
7. Losers.................................143
8. Winners..............................164
9. Changing Society......................................187

PART THREE: RESULTS
10. The Land................................205
11. Men Moving..............................228
12. City, Industry, the Working Class..........................245
13. The Bourgeois World.........................270
14. Science, Religion, Ideology...........................294
15. The Arts..............................324
16. Conclusion.............................354
Tables.............................360
Maps...............................366
Notes..................................373
Further Reading..................................388
Index...........................396