The New Cambridge Modern History: Volume 10, The Zenith of European Power, 1830-70J. P. T. Bury The theme of this volume is indicated by its title. The period of 1830-1870 is shown to have been the time when European political, cultural and economic dominance was at its height. |
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Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Relative activity of Mediterranean ports page 41819 | 2 |
Nihilism and populism page 3745 | 5 |
Liberalism menaced from both Left and Right page 2056 | 6 |
The South unites in defence of slavery Militant antislavery in the North page 61719 | 19 |
CHAPTER II | 22 |
Growth of textile industries | 28 |
The golden age of the American sailing ship Transport by steamship | 35 |
The new emperor Alexander II | 369 |
The Polish revolt of 1863 Superficial liberalisation of Finland | 376 |
The administration of Siberia 3834 | 384 |
The instigatorsintellectuals their inspirationFrance | 390 |
Liberation of Lombardy and Venetia | 396 |
Election of Louis Napoleon | 404 |
Revolution comes to a standstill in France and Germany 4089 | 410 |
CHAPTER XVI | 416 |
Extension of factory system 423 | 42 |
CHAPTER III | 49 |
Clerk Maxwell and Faradays theory | 57 |
The perfecting of spectrum analysis page | 58 |
Laboratory synthesis and commercial exploitation 645 | 64 |
Medical and surgical practice | 72 |
Coal iron and cotton | 73 |
Lamennaiss appeal to the Pope The bull Mirari vos | 78 |
Disputes in the Church of Scotland Founding of Free Church of Scotland 834 | 87 |
The General Council 939 | 97 |
CHAPTER V | 104 |
The secondary school and modern studies | 112 |
The British Indian system | 118 |
Britain a world power Modification of political system | 121 |
Abolition of the stamp duty Unique position of The Times | 129 |
Some comparisons New techniques | 150 |
The desire to attain a belief increasing preoccupation with psychology | 157 |
Decline of the traditional heroic hero | 163 |
Comparison between Tolstoy and Dostoevsky | 169 |
Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe 17980 | 181 |
Changes in forms of government 1856 | 188 |
British parliamentary reform and its influence 1923 | 194 |
The Piedmontese Statuto of 1848 and its importance as a national symbol 2001 | 206 |
CHAPTER IX | 213 |
The SchleswigHolstein problem 21920 | 220 |
Mazzini and Italian nationalism 2246 | 226 |
Slavophiles and PanSlavs 2324 | 233 |
The conflict of nationalities in Hungary 23940 | 240 |
CHAPTER X | 246 |
Ambiguities of French policy page | 249 |
Defeat of Mahmuds forces The four ambassadors meet in Vienna | 255 |
Lamartines Manifesto to the Powers | 261 |
Willingness of the powers to maintain peace The Crimean turning point | 267 |
CHAPTER XI | 274 |
Steam wins the battle with sail in the British navy | 280 |
Temporary success of the ram Efficacy of the turret | 286 |
Seniority | 288 |
Senior officers selection of their own successors | 290 |
Longterm service established also fleet reserve Genesis of the bluejacket | 296 |
CHAPTER XII | 302 |
The military use of railways | 308 |
The Prussian General Staff | 317 |
The American Civil | 327 |
3535 | 355 |
The Kochubei Committee of 1826 | 361 |
The ports of North Africa | 424 |
Britain a predominant influence in Mediterranean politics | 431 |
English French and AustroGerman groups come to agreement | 437 |
Louis Napoleons early life his one purpose to restore the Empire 4423 | 444 |
1 the period of personal rule 44953 | 450 |
Encouragement of economic expansioncredit railways and lowering of tariffs 4512 | 457 |
French intervention in Mexico | 464 |
Russian plans for dismembering the Ottoman empire | 470 |
Defeat of Turkish flotilla at Sinope British and French fleets enter Black | 477 |
Sardinia adheres to the FrancoBritish alliance Overtures to Sweden | 483 |
Congress turns to affairs of Poland Greece and Italy | 490 |
The political situation in individual states | 497 |
Prussias humiliation at Olmütz Austria fails to gain admission to the Zollverein | 503 |
Roons proposals for reforming the Prussian army 50910 | 510 |
Bismarck gambles on French neutrality and secures the alliance of Italy | 517 |
The equation being worked out by revolution and reaction | 523 |
Settlement of Transylvania and the Southern Slav areas Bachs influence | 529 |
Economic expansion and growing state expenditure | 535 |
The AustroPrussian war Andrássy persuades Francis Joseph to drop federalism | 550 |
Austria restores order and the old regime continues | 557 |
THE ORIGINS OF THE FRANCOPRUSSIAN WAR | 577 |
France makes two capital mistakes | 592 |
France declares war without allies | 599 |
Two obstacles to the continued ascendancy of nationalism | 605 |
Contrast between North and South | 611 |
Slavery as a Federal question | 620 |
Abraham Lincoln becomes President 6267 | 627 |
The Norths superior economic potential | 635 |
Frances ambitions in Mexico | 641 |
Expansion of the Norths economic system 6412 | 647 |
Finance recruitment and states rights in the South 6513 | 658 |
Chile and the Chilean constitution of 1833 6634 | 665 |
of Paraguay | 672 |
CHAPTER XXVI | 685 |
Activities of Western missionaries | 695 |
British and French troops enter Canton 1857 | 701 |
Repression of Chinese Muslim revolts The restored empire enters into normal | 707 |
Western powers enforce imperial ratification of their treaties The Meiji Restoration | 713 |
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