A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe, 1789 - 1914

List of Figures viii

Notes on Contributors x

Maps xiv

Introduction xvii

Stefan Berger

Part I The Idea of "Europeanness" and the
Construction of European Identity 1

1 Insiders and Outsiders: Borders in Nineteenth-Century Europe
3

Bo Stråth

2 Visual Representations of Europe in the Nineteenth Century:
The Age of Nationalism and Imperialism 11

Michael Wintle

Part II Agriculture, Industry, and Social Change 29

3 Rural Society and Agricultural Revolution 31

Hamish Graham

4 Industrial Revolution, Commerce, and Trade 44

Robert Lee

5 Demography, Urbanization, and Migration 56

Robert Lee

6 Lords and Peasants 70

Carl Levy

7 Bourgeois Society 86

Pamela Pilbeam

8 The Disappearance of the Traditional Artisan 98

James R. Farr

9 The Social Condition of the Working Class 109

Jutta Schwarzkopf

Part III Political Developments 123

10 Revolutions and Revolutionaries: Histories, Concepts, and
Myths 125

Sharif Gemie

11 The Rise of the Modern Leviathan: State Functions and State
Features 137

Jörn Leonhard

12 The Democratic Experience 149

John Garrard

13 Labor Movements 164

Stefan Berger

14 National Movements 178

Stefan Berger

15 The "Woman Question" 193

Kathleen Canning

Part IV Intellectual Developments and Religion 209

16 Political Ideologies: Liberalism, Conservatism, and Socialism
211

Edmund Neill

17 Social Darwinism and Race 224

Mike Hawkins

18 The Age of Catholic Revival 236

Oded Heilbronner

19 Protestantism 248

Anthony J. Steinhoff

20 Orthodoxy 262

Shane P. O'Rourke

21 The Jews: A European Minority 274

David Rechter

Part V Cultural Developments 289

22 European Culture in the Nineteenth Century 291

James A. Winders

23 Schooling: Culture and the State 304

Sharif Gemie

24 The Age of Historism 316

Matthew Jefferies

25 The Century of Science 333

Kathryn M. Olesko

26 Police and the Law 345

Chris A. Williams

27 The Cultural History of Crime 355

Daniel M. Vyleta

28 Medical Discourses 369

John C. Waller

29 Sexuality 382

Ivan Crozier

Part VI The International System, Colonialism, and War
399

30 Restrained Competition: International Relations 401

William Mulligan

31 War 417

Ute Frevert

32 Colonialism 432

Trutz von Trotha

Bibliography 449

Index 499

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Stefan Berger is Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the University of Manchester. He is the author of numerous books, including Inventing the Nation: Germany (2004), Social Democracy and the Working Class in Nineteenth and Twentieth-century Germany (2000), and The Search for Normality: National Identity and Historical Consciousness in Germany Since 1800 (1997, second edition, 2003). He is co-editor of, among other works, Writing History: Theory and Practice (co-author, 2003), Historikerdialoge (2003), Writing National Histories: Western Europe Since 1800 (1999), and Policy Concertation and Social Partnership in Western Europe (2002).

S. Berger, University of Manchester, UK