Modern European History
History of Europe
Historians tend to divide the study of history into "relatively distinct" or "relatively manageable" periods or
epochs.
Examples being:-
The Early and the Late "Classical Age" - Of Ancient Greece and Rome
The Early and the High "Middle Age" - Of Europe
The Period of the Renaissance - Sometimes styled as The Renaissance and Reformation Era
Early Modern European History and then, more recently,
Modern Europe History and
Contemporary European History
The modern european history specialists tend to concern themselves particularly with the course of European history
after the onset of the French Revolution in 1789 and continue into nineteenth century European History until circa 1914.
Thus those interested in Modern European History epoch in the history of europe have a great deal to consider.
There was an Age of Revolutions. The initial French Revolutionary turmoils were succeeded by Napoleonic Wars. A
peace established in 1815 was followed by a limited spate of revolution in 1830 and a more dramatic upsurge
of Revolution across most of continental Europe in 1848.
Politically fragmented territories such as the
Italian Peninsula and the German Confederation were both integrated by 1871. These integrations resulted in
the establishment of a Kingdom of Italy and of a German Empire.
The was an Age of Liberalism after circa 1830 where "liberal" policies seemed to gain sway in the form of
the awardance of Constitutions or through Parliamentary or other reforms.
In "liberal" states governments,
often under popular pressure, tended
to interest themselves in public education, public health and sanitation, regulation of the conditions of
employment, economic development and in extensions
of the franchise.
We maintain a series of pages that attempt to consider many of these topics. You may be interested
in finding a series of links to relevant pages further down this page:-
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