Revolutionary Europe 1783-1815
Publisher: HarperCollins (paper)
Published: January 1972
ISBN-13: 9780061312724
First sentence: Europe, on the eve of the French Revolution, presented a picture of deep and varying contrasts - the contrast between the developed West and the undeveloped East; between the expansion of trade, industry and population and the relative stagnation of agriculture; and between the wide dissemination of news and ideas and the tenacious conservatism of social relations and political institutions.