Explains how bold efforts at profound progressive change provoked a powerful reactionary backlash that led to the imposition of brutal, regressive dictatorships

An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. In many ways the period 1789-1849 saw the birth of the modern world, as the people

A study of the economic and social changes which shaped the movement for German unification. The author emphasizes the effect of industrialism on urban life, tr