Charles Downer Hazen
The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Europe from 1789 to 1918
e-artnow, 2018
Contact: [email protected]
ISBN 978-80-268-9934-1
Table of Contents
Chapter I The Old Regime in Europe
Chapter II The Old Regime in France
Chapter III Beginnings of the Revolution
Chapter IV The Making of the Constitution
Chapter V The Legislative Assembly
Chapter IX The Early Years of the Empire
Chapter X The Empire at Its Height
Chapter XI The Decline and Fall of Napoleon
Chapter XIII France Under the Restoration
Chapter XIV Revolutions Beyond France
Chapter XV The Reign of Louis Philippe
Chapter XVI Central Europe in Revolt
Chapter XVII The Second French Republic and the Founding of the Second Empire
Chapter XVII The Making of the Kingdom of Italy
Chapter XIX The Unification of Germany
Chapter XX The Second Empire and the Franco-Prussian War
Chapter XXII France Under the Third Republic
Chapter XXIII The Kingdom of Italy Since 1870
Chapter XXIV Austria-Hungary Since 1848
Chapter XXV England From 1815 to 1868
Chapter XXVI England Since 1868
Chapter XXVII The British Empire
Chapter XXVIII The Partition of Africa
Chapter XXIX Spain and Portugal
Chapter XXX Holland and Belgium Since 1830
Chapter XXXII The Scandinavian States
Chapter XXXIII The Disruption of the Ottoman Empire and the Rise of the Balkan States
Chapter XXXIV Russia to the War With Japan
Chapter XXXVI Russia Since the War With Japan
Chapter XXXVII The Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913
Chapter XXXVIII The European War
Preface
To all thoughtful persons the European War has brought home with overwhelming power the importance of a knowledge of modern European history. For without such knowledge no one can understand, or begin to understand, the significance of the forces that have made it, the vastness of the issues involved, the nature of what is indisputably one of the gravest crises, if not the very gravest, in the history of mankind. The destinies of every nation in this world and the conditions of life of every individual will inevitably be changed, and may be profoundly changed, by the outcome of this gigantic and portentous conflict. No citizen of a free country who takes his citizenship seriously, who considers himself responsible, to the full extent of his personal influence, for the character and conduct of his government, can, without the crudest self-stultification, admit that he knows nothing and cares nothing about the history of Europe.
If he cares for his own national inheritance and tradition, for its characteristic and fundamental policies and principles, then he will care most emphatically about what happens in Europe. Nothing that happens there is really foreign to us, for the fortunes of Europe and America are inextricably intertwined.
This, in my opinion the most outstanding fact in the modern world, was exemplified in the eighteenth century in the person of Lafayette, an American patriot and a French