The New Cambridge Modern History: Volume 10, The Zenith of European Power, 1830-70

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J. P. T. Bury
CUP Archive, Jan 3, 1960 - History - 788 pages
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
English Victorian architecture
717
494
721
Activities of Western missionaries
725
Improved communications and international trade
736
Constitutional evolution of German states The revised French charter of 1830
737
3478
739
Armour the answer to the shell The broadside becoming obsolete
741
4589
742
The Italian constitutional dilemma of 18489
744
The regency of the Empress Dowager Tzu
750
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752
The 1850s a period of markingtime and consolidation
755
Increase and shifts in population
757
Russias interest in the strengthening of Prussia and Austria against international
764
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