Title: The nineteenth century ;
Authors: Briggs, Asa,
Date: 1970
Publisher: McGraw-Hill,
Physical description: 360 pages : illustrations (part color), maps, portraits (part color) ; 36 cm
Language: English
LC class: C
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.