Table of Contents
Introduction: The Age of Revolution seen from the Twenty-First Century
1. Europe at the End of the Old Regime
2. A Decade of Revolution: France, 1789-99
3. The French Revolution and Europe
4. Napoleon's Europe
5. Social and Economic Change, 1780-1850
6. The Shapes of Public Life, 1815-50
7. In the Shadow of the Past, 1815-32
8. Old Certainties and New Vistas, 1830-51
9. The Age of Revolution in European History
Biography
Jonathan Sperber is the Curator's Professor at the University of Missouri, USA. His previous publications include Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life (2013) and The European Revolutions 1848-1851 (2009).
'Sperber’s synthesis of the revolutionary era is extremely useful for advanced students. The book’s wide coverage is framed in an overarching, modern interpretation: The old-regime society of orders was replaced by a new civil society based on property ownership.'
Professor Marion Gray, Western Michigan University
'This splendid survey of a transformative period in European history is destined to serve as the introductory text of choice for a new generation of students. Jonathan Sperber writes with feeling, bringing his considerable expertise to bear in an insightful, comparative and balanced assessment of the sweeping changes that characterised the revolutionary era.'
Dr Katherine D. Watson, Oxford Brookes University
