Title The nineteenth century; the contradictions of progress. / Texts by Asa Briggs [and others] Edited by Asa Briggs.

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Description	360 pages : illustrations (part color), maps, portraits (part color) ; 36 cm
Bibliography	Bibliography: pages 346-347.
Contents	The shape of the century: man at the crossroads of history / Asa Briggs -- Revolution and improvement: politics and society from 1789 to 1851 / John Roberts -- Authority and protest: patterns of change from 1848 to 1900 / James Joll -- Cities: population and the urban explosion / F. Bédarida -- Countrysides: the revolution in world agriculture / F.M.L. Thompson -- Nation building: the birth of the modern state / John Röhl -- War and peace: mechanized warfare and the growth of pacifism / Brian Bond -- Overseas empires: the century of European world power / A.P. Thornton -- The making of America: opportunities and problems of a new world / Marcus Cunliffe -- The expansion of Russia: reaction, reform and revolution / Hugh Seton-Watson -- Manners, morals and tastes: changing values in art and society / Asa Briggs -- Retrospect and forecast: the nineteenth century faces the future / Asa Briggs.
Subject	Nineteenth century.
	Nineteenth century.
	Dix-neuviève siècle.
ISBN	0500040095
	9780500040096