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The three-quarters of a century between 1715 and 1789 are often seen as the last years of Europe's old order. But a dramatic rise in Europe's population, the agricultural and industrial revolutions in Britain, and the unprecedented challenges of the Enlightenment began to shake the foundations of the old regime well before 1789. Drawing on the best contemporary scholarship, especially the innovations of French social history, Isser Woloch paints an...
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Explores the history of Europe in the years between 1789 and 1850, discussing the French Revolution, the Napoleonic era, the Industrial Revolution, restoration and romanticism, political and social transformations, and the revolutions of 1848 in Italy, France, and central and Eastern Europe.