| Contents |
The legacies of revolution -- The paradoxes of freedom -- The European spring -- The social revolution -- The conquest of nature -- The age of emotion -- The challenge of democracy -- The wages of empire. |
| Performer |
Read by Napoleon Ryan. |
| Summary |
Richard J. Evans's gripping narrative ranges across a century of social and national conflicts, from the revolutions of 1830 and 1848 to the unification of both Germany and Italy, from the Russo-Turkish wars to the Balkan upheavals that brought this era of relative peace and growing prosperity to an end. Among the great themes it discusses are the decline of religious belief and the rise of secular science and medicine, the journey of art, music, and literature from Romanticism to Modernism, the replacement of old-regime punishments by the modern prison, and the dramatic struggle of feminists for women's equality and emancipation. Uniting the era's broad-ranging transformations was the pursuit of power in all segments of life, from the banker striving for economic power to the serf seeking to escape the power of his landlord, from the engineer asserting society's power over the environment to the psychiatrist attempting to exert science's power over human nature itself. The first single-volume history of the century, this comprehensive and sweeping account gives the reader a magnificently human picture of Europe in the age when it dominated the rest of the globe. |
| System details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Format: OverDrive Listen. |
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Format: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook. |
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Requires OverDrive app 3.0 (Windows) / 1.0 (Mac) / 1.0 (Windows Mobile) |
| Subject |
Hegemony -- Europe.
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Europe -- Politics and government -- 1815-1871.
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Europe -- Politics and government -- 1871-1918.
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Europe -- History -- 1815-1871.
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Europe -- History -- 1871-1918.
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| Genre |
Audiobooks.
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| Series |
Penguin history of Europe ; 7
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| Add'l Names |
Ryan, Napoleon.
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| Other corporate author |
OverDrive, Inc.
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| ISBN |
9781681682990
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| STANDARD # |
77EB6A15-F881-4ABA-9DDE-0D4D63B7890F OverDrive |
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