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

XIV Contents

Southern Italy • Italy Unified • Limits to Unification •

Italian Politics • The Rise of Italian Nationalism

The Unification of Germany 660 William I,

Bismarck, and the Resolution of the Constitutional

Crisis • Alliances and Warfare to Establish Prussian

Leadership • The North German Confederation • The

Franco-Prussian War and German Unification •

Nationalist versus Internationalist Movements •

William II and German Nationalism

National Awakenings in the Habsburg Lands 673

Diversity and Cohesion in the Habsburg Empire •

Repression of Nationalism in the Habsburg Empire •

Political Crisis and Foreign Policy Disasters • Creation

of the Dual Monarchy • Ethnic Tensions and

Nationalist Movements in the Dual Monarchy

Conclusion 682

Chapter 18 The Dominant Powers in the Ace of Liberalism:

Parliamentary Britain, Tsarist Russia, and

Republican France 684

Victorian Britain 686 The Victorian Consensus •

The Crimean War • The Liberal Era of Victorian

Politics • The Reform Bill of 1867 • Other Victorian

Reforms • Mass Politics Come to Britain • Irish Home

Rule • New Contours in British Political Life

Tsarist Russia 705 Stirrings of Reform in Russia •

The Emancipation of the Serfs • The Expansion of the

Russian Empire • Nihilists and Populists • Alexander

Ills Empire • Unrest, Reform, and Revolution • Lenin

and the Bolsheviks • The Russo-Japanese War (1904­

190S) • The Revolution of 1905

France: Second Empire and Third Republic 725

The Authoritarian Empire • Economic Growth • The

“Liberal Empire” • The Franco-Prussian War and the

Siege of Paris • The Paris Commune

Republican France 734 Monarchists and

Republicans • The Third Republic • General

Boulanger and Captain Dreyfus • The Radical

Republic

Conclusion 741