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 |
Economic expansion and growing state expenditure page 535 | 2 |
Nihilism and populism page 3745 | 5 |
Liberalism menaced from both Left and Right page 2056 | 6 |
Francis Joseph makes approach to Hungary 5478 | 8 |
Seniority | 9 |
THE CRIMEAN | 15 |
Egypt a disturbing force under Mehemet | 19 |
page 333 | 419 |
Mehemet Ali and the French capture of Algiers | 427 |
113 | 439 |
CHAPTER XVII | 442 |
The logic in his opportunism | 448 |
Rapid increase in foreign investment and industrial production | 459 |
Turkey rejects the Russian demands | 470 |
Defeat of Turkish flotilla at Sinope British and French fleets enter Black | 477 |
CHAPTER II | 22 |
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 |
Senior officers selection of their own successors Introduction of entry | 106 |
The secondary school and modern studies | 112 |
The British Indian system | 118 |
Englands lead in the development of the press | 129 |
The background of RussoTurkish relations | 150 |
IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE | 159 |
The historic novel Realism as a mode of presentation | 165 |
Improvements in administrative organisation | 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 | 249 |
Naval College training of cadets The spread of commissions | 252 |
Agricultural prosperity between 1850 and 1873 | 255 |
Palmerston Russia and the Hungarian revolt | 262 |
Alliances and diplomatic alignments cease to be defensive in purpose | 271 |
Early days of steamships | 277 |
End of the woodiron controversy Roundshot or shell The French again | 283 |
CHAPTER XII | 302 |
The military use of railways | 308 |
The Prussian General Staff | 317 |
Bismarck observes the military weakness of France and Austria | 327 |
Growth of textile industries | 333 |
Britain a world power Modification of political system | 335 |
Improvements in the conditions of factory workers | 344 |
Development in the colonies Shift in balance of imperial interests | 351 |
CHAPTER XIV | 357 |
468 | 358 |
Codification of Russian laws | 363 |
Russian plans for dismembering the Ottoman empire | 374 |
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 |
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 |
Prussian administrative system the envy of liberals throughout Europe | 504 |
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 |
The golden age of the American sailing ship Transport by steamship | 545 |
The AustroPrussian war Andrássy persuades Francis Joseph to drop federalism | 549 |
Charles Albert of PiedmontSardinia 5547 | 557 |
Collapse of the revolution in Naples Rome and Venice Italy again becomes | 565 |
Cavours diplomatic duel with Austria Defeat of Austria at Magenta and Solferino | 571 |
THE ORIGINS OF THE FRANCOPRUSSIAN WAR | 577 |
Napoleon pursues the mirage of an alliance with Austria | 583 |
Prince Leopold of Hohenzollerns candidature for the Spanish throne 5878 | 589 |
Gramont proposes a letter of apology to Napoleon from William I | 595 |
CHAPTER XXIII | 603 |
Crossing the Atlantic | 604 |
Emancipation from patronage Artistic lead of England c 1760c 1800 | 606 |
Two major conflicts during the Jackson administration 60610 | 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 |
Nekrasov and Walt Whitman | 658 |
Chile and the Chilean constitution of 1833 6634 | 665 |
Dramatic writing below level of that reached by the novel and poetry | 670 |
of Paraguay | 672 |
CHAPTER XXVI | 685 |
The International Settlement of Shanghai | 693 |
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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