Aspects of European history 1789-1980 / Stephen J. Lee

Includes bibliography and index.

The origin of French Revolution -- The course of the French Revolution -- The reforms of Napoleon I -- The fall of Napoleon I -- The concert of Europe 1815-19 -- Metternich and the Austrian empire 1815-48 -- The revolution of 1848-9 -- The impact of Crimean war on European diplomacy -- Cavour, Garibaldi and the unification Italy -- The Unification of Germany -- The reforms of Alexander II -- The collapse of the second French empire -- Bismarck and the German political parties 1871-90 -- The survival of the third French republic 1870-1914 -- German foreign policy 1871-1914 -- The outbreak of the first world war -- The collapse of Austria-Hungary and the problem of the successor states -- The last years of tsarist Russia -- The Bolshevik Seizure and retention of power 1917-24 -- Two views of the terms of the treaty of Versailles -- Mussolini -- The great depression -- Hitler’s rise to power and the Nazi revolution -- German foreign policy 1918-39 -- Soviet foreign policy 1918-41 -- The league of nation -- The Spanish civil war -- The contradiction of the third French republic 1918-40 -- The Soviet economy 1917-80 -- The defeat of Nazi Germany -- The cold war to 1980 -- Economic and political integration in western Europe 1945-80 -- Nationalism -- Marxism and manifestation to 1980 -- Imperialism -- Decolonization