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
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.
Those interested in history of europe have a great deal of history to consider since that time.
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.
Then there was a World War (1914-1918), and then a period of economic depression and widespread, somewhat associated, dictatorship.
This was followed by another World War (1939-1945) and a subsequent "search for peace, progress and security" that has
featured the
establishment of a European Economic Community that has itself evolved into a more politically, economically, and
socially encompassing European Union.
We maintain a series of pages that attempt to consider many of these topics.
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