List of Figures, Tables and Maps
Preface
1. Nationalism
2. The Unification of Italy
Background • The Story of Unification • Historiography
3. The Unification of Germany
Origins • Rise of Nationalism in Germany • The Schleswig-Holstein Question • The Luxembourg
Crisis • The Franco-Prussian War • Bismarck: An
Assessment • Germany after Unification
4. The Eastern Question: Nationalist Aspirations in the Ottoman Empire
Background • The Eastern Question • The
Balkan Peninsula Terrain • Balkan Crisis in the Early
19th Century • Balkan Crisis in the Late 19th and
Early 20th Centuries • Analysing the Turbulent Flux of
Balkan Nationalism
5. Imperialism
Imperialism before the 19th Century • The Age
of Imperialism, the 19th Century • Theories of
Imperialism
6. Alliances and Alignments: Prelude to the First World War
Bismarck’s System of Alliances • Britain Steps out of
its Splendid Isolation • The Fashoda Crisis and the
Entente Cordiale • Anglo-Russian Rivalry turns into
the Anglo-Russian Convention • Fluid Alignments
and Italy’s Trepidation
7. The First World War
Long-term Causes of the First World War • Russia
sides with Serbia • England joins France and Russia
against Germany • The System of Secret Alliances • Imperialism • Militarism • Nationalism • Newspaper and Press • Other Causes • Historians Discuss War Guilt
8. Revolution in Russia
Conditions in Imperial Russia • Revolutionary
Trends • Russian Intelligentsia and the Formation of
Political Parties • The Emancipation of Serfs
• The Revolution of 1905 • The Revolutions of
1917 • Interpreting the Russian Revolution
9. Fascism
10. Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
Fascist Italy • Nazi Germany
11. The Second World War: Analysing its Causes
The Versailles Treaty • Anglo-French Differences • Hitler’s Measures • Policy of Appeasement • Historians’ Interpretation
12. Cultural Transformation in Europe: 1850–1939
Creation of a New Public Sphere • Print Culture in
the 19th Century • Mass Education and Extension
of Literacy in 19th-century Europe • Schools of
Painting • Institutions of Knowledge
Bibliography
Index