The nineteenth century
Subtitle: the contradictions of progress.
By: Texts by Asa Briggs [and others] Edited by Asa Briggs.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 1970
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Nineteenth century
Notes: R77549

Bibliography: p. 346-347.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Asa Briggs; title: The shape of the century : man at the crossroads of history; title: Revolution and improvement : politics and society from 1789 to 1851; title: Authority and protest : patterns of change from 1848 to 1900; title: Cities : population and the urban explosion; title: Countrysides : the revolution in world agriculture; title: Nation building : the birth of the modern state; title: War and peace : mechanized warfare and the growth of pacifism; title: Overseas empires : the century of European world power; title: The making of America : opportunities and problems of a new world; title: The expansion of Russia : reaction, reform and revolution; title: Manners, morals and tastes : changing values in art and society; title: Retrospect and forecast : the nineteenth century faces the future