Providing a continent-wide history, this major survey covers the key political events of this turbulent period. Jonathan Sperber also looks at lives of ordinary people and considers broad social and economic developments. In particular he examines the relationships between the different revolutionary movements, showing how the French Revolution of 1789 set patterns which recurred over the following sixty years.

• Covers four major themes: the economic responses to the rapid rise in population; the transformation of the old regime to a civil society of property owners; the increase in state power and the often violent and dramatic struggles for political participation in an age of social crisis and cultural change.
• It offers a continent-wide history - looking at broad trends from the Atlantic to the Urals, and from the Baltic to the Mediterranean.
• Draws together the latest scholarship.

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. Annotated Further Reading. Index.

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