Revolutionary Europe 1780–1850: Edition 2

Key features include

• analyses of the movement from society’s old regime of orders to a civil society of property owners; the varied consequences of rapid population increase and the spread of market relations in the economy; and the upshot of these changes for political life, from violent revolutions and warfare to dramatic reforms and peaceful mass movements

• a lively account of the events of the period and a thorough analysis of the political, cultural and socioeconomic transformations that shaped them

• a look into the lives of ordinary people amidst the social and economic developments of the time

• a range of maps depicting the developments in Europe’s geographic scope between 1789 and 1848, including for the 1820, 1830 and 1848 revolutions.

Revolutionary Europe 1780–1850 is the perfect introduction for students of the history of the French Revolution and the history of Europe more broadly.