A History of Modern Europe - From the Renaissance to the Present

692 Ch. 1 8 • The Dominant Powers in the Age of Liberalism (Left) The charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava. (Right) Florence ...

Victorian Britain 693 to include the most prosperous segments of the working class. Most British workers seemed to accept the be ...

694 Ch. 1 8 • The Dominant Powers in the Age of Liberalism as King George I, while placating Greek nationalists by awarding one ...

Victorian Britain 695 (1804—1881) became the leader of the Conservatives and Gladstone’s great rival. A Jew who had been baptize ...

696 Ch. 18 • The Dominant Powers in the Age of Liberalism that the minimum countryside tax requirement be further lowered. Under ...

Victorian Britain 697 many poor workers resided. Thereafter, parliamentary commissions began to call upon experts to gather info ...

698 Ch. 18 • The Dominant Powers in the Age of Liberalism uneducated children. Yet considerably more than altruism lay behind a ...

Victorian Britain 699 The Conservative Party now reflected an important change in modern British political life. The traditional ...

700 Ch. 1 8 • The Dominant Powers in the Age of Liberalism Protestant landlords were not about to turn over land in Ireland to t ...

Victorian Britain 701 New Contours in British Political Life Queen Victoria’s longevity—she ruled the vast British Empire with d ...

702 Ch. 1 8 • The Dominant Powers in the Age of Liberalism (Left) Ben Tillett, organizer of the Docker’s Union. (Right) James Ke ...

Victorian Britain 703 lower food prices. Unable to resolve the split within his party, Balfour resigned in December 1905, and th ...

704 Ch. 1 8 • The Dominant Powers in the Age of Liberalism not pass after it had been approved on three occasions by the House o ...

Tsarist Russia 705 gent opposition of the House of Lords. But with Britain—and all the pow­ ers of Europe—going to war, the deta ...

706 Ch. 1 8 • The Dominant Powers in the Age of Liberalism books entered Russia just in the 1847—1849 period, most ending up in ...

Tsarist Russia 707 France, and the German states as a model for Russia to emulate. In con­ trast, Slavophiles cherished the spec ...

708 Ch. 1 8 • The Dominant Powers in the Age of Liberalism with the tsarist autocracy than it cared to admit. Unlike the Western ...

Tsarist Russia 709 Peasants hailing Tsar Alexander II after the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. tem remained essentially in p ...

710 Ch. 1 8 • The Dominant Powers in the Age of Liberalism defense of slavery, the Russian nobility capitulated without resistan ...

Tsarist Russia 711 The Expansion of the Russian Empire Following defeat in the Crimean War and as stipulated by the Peace of Par ...