2nd Edition

Bourgeois Europe, 1850-1914

By Jonathan Sperber Copyright 2022
444 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

444 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

444 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Now in its second edition, Bourgeois Europe, 1850–1914 is a general history of Europe from the middle of the nineteenth century to the outbreak of the First World War, a successor to Revolutionary Europe: 1780–1850 , also available from Routledge. The book offers wide geographic coverage of the European continent, from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean and from the Atlantic to the... Read more

0. Introduction  Part 1. Progress and Realism, 1850-1875  1. The Shape of an Era  2. Social Structures and Social Institutions  3. The Arts and Sciences  4. The Politics of the People  5. The Politics of the Powers  6. The Dynamics of Power  Part 2. Doubt and Uncertainty, 1871-1895  7. The Shape of an Era  8. Social Structures and Social Institutions  9. The Arts and Sciences  10. The Politics of the People  11. The Politics of the Powers  12. The Dynamics of Power  Part 3. Modernity and Modernism, 1890-1914  13. The Shape of an Era  14. Social Structures and Social Institutions  15. The Arts and Sciences  16. The Politics of the People  17. The Politics of the Powers  18. The Dynamics of Power  19. Conclusion

Biography

Jonathan Sperber is the Curators’ Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus at the University of Missouri. He has written extensively on the social, political and religious history of Europe in the century between 1815 and 1914.