Advances in Democracy
From the French Revolution to the Present-Day European Union
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2011
251 pages
978-1-61530-417-2 (ISBN)
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Beginning with the Industrial Revolution, Europe was seized by the spirit of political and social innovation and reform that has continued into the 21st century. The general atmosphere of the continent, reflected in the Romantic, Realist, and Modernist mo
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Heather M. Campbell
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Content
- BOOK COVER
- TITLE
- COPYRIGHT
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1 THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, 1789-1849
- THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
- ECONOMIC EFFECTS
- SOCIAL UPHEAVAL
- POLITICAL REVOLUTIONS
- THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
- THE NAPOLEONIC ERA
- THE CONSERVATIVE REACTION
- THE REVOLUTIONS OF 1848
- THE LEGACY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
- CULTURAL NATIONALISM
- SIMPLICITY AND TRUTH
- POPULISM
- NATURE OF THE CHANGES
- NAPOLEON'S INFLUENCE
- CHAPTER 2 THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY: ROMANTICISM AND OTHER CULTURAL DEVELOPMENTS
- THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT
- LITERATURE
- DRAMA
- PAINTING
- SCULPTURE AND ARCHITECTURE
- MUSIC
- SELF-ANALYSIS
- SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT
- POSTREVOLUTIONARY THINKING
- THE PRINCIPLE OF EVOLUTION
- SCIENCE
- PHILOSOPHY
- RELIGION AND ITS ALTERNATIVES
- SCIENTIFIC POSITIVISM
- THE CULT OF ART
- CHAPTER 3 THE MID-19TH CENTURY: REALISM AND REALPOLITIK
- SCIENTIFIC MATERIALISM
- VICTORIAN MORALITY
- THE ADVANCE OF DEMOCRACY
- REALISM IN THE ARTS
- LITERATURE
- PAINTING AND SCULPTURE
- POPULAR ART
- MUSIC
- SUMMARY
- CHAPTER 4 A MATURING INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY, 1849-1914
- THE "SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION"
- MODIFICATIONS IN SOCIAL STRUCTURE
- THE RISE OF ORGANIZED LABOUR AND MASS PROTESTS
- CONDITIONS IN EASTERN EUROPE
- THE EMERGENCE OF THE INDUSTRIAL STATE
- POLITICAL PATTERNS
- CHANGES IN GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONS
- REFORM AND REACTION IN EASTERN EUROPE
- DIPLOMATIC ENTANGLEMENTS
- THE SCRAMBLE FOR COLONIES
- PREWAR DIPLOMACY
- CHAPTER 5 MODERN CULTURE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
- SYMBOLISM AND IMPRESSIONISM
- AESTHETICISM
- NATURALISM
- THE NEW CENTURY
- ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT
- NEW TRENDS IN TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE
- THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
- REEXAMINATION OF THE UNIVERSE
- THE PREWAR PERIOD
- CHAPTER 6 SOCIETY AND CULTURE AMID THE WORLD WARS, 1914-45
- THE GREAT WAR, OR WORLD WAR I
- THE CULTURAL SHOCK OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
- THE INTERWAR YEARS
- HOPES IN GENEVA
- THE LOTTERY IN WEIMAR
- THE IMPACT OF THE SLUMP
- THE TRAPPINGS OF DICTATORSHIP
- THE PHONY PEACE
- THE BLAST OF WORLD WAR II
- CHAPTER 7 POSTWAR EUROPE, 1945 TO THE PRESENT
- THE UNITED STATES TO THE RESCUE
- A CLIMATE OF FEAR
- AFFLUENCE AND ITS UNDERSIDE
- THE REFLUX OF EMPIRE
- EVER CLOSER UNION?
- CONCLUSION
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- BACK COVER
