History of Eastern Europe 1740-1918: Empires, Nations, and Modernisation Book

List of maps     vi
Preface     vii
Introduction     1
The Eighteenth-Century Background 1740-1804     11
Peoples, states and societies     13
War, Enlightenment and nationalism     27
The Habsburg Monarchy's attempt at modernisation     41
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth     61
The Ottoman Empire     77
Russia and Prussia as regional powers     91
Nationalism, Revolution and State Formation 1804-67     105
Forces of the age: the international scene 1804-67     107
Forces of the age: liberalism, nationalism and economic change 1804-67     115
The Habsburg Monarchy from enlightened absolutism to the Ausgleich     127
The Ottoman Empire and the Balkan nation-states     153
Russia and Prussia 1804-67     175
Nationalism, Independence and Modernisation 1867-1918     191
Nation-states and modernisation     193
Dualism: the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy 1867-1914     203
Ottoman retreat and the Balkan nation-states to 1914     215
The Russian and German empires to 1914     229
The First World War 1914-18     241
Conclusion     255
Notes     259
Bibliography     269
Index     279