Bury J.P.T. New Cambridge Modern History. Volume 10: The Zenith of European Power, 1830-70

Cambridge University Press, 1964. — 736 p. — ISBN: 0-521-34536-7.The prodigious forces discovered and exploited through many decades by the inventive genius and tireless energy of the European peoples seemed in the middle of the nineteenth century to carry them upwards to the very zenith of their power. The states of Europe might subsequently rule over dominions still more extensive, command armies still larger, and possess weapons more terrible by far in their destructive range; yet, as time went on, their supremacy would be increasingly open to challenge from the peoples of other continents. In the years 1830-70, however, it was scarcely questioned. This was a period when the European states were free from serious threat of political dominance by any one among them, and when, prone though they as ever were to shifting antagonisms, they were not more permanently divided into hostile and highly armed camps. Their wars were relatively brief and the loss of life relatively small. Conflict had not yet attained the suicidal proportions of 1914-18, and, although men of vision like Tocqueville and Gioberti could foretell the immense future power of the United States or Russia, it was not until after that first 'world war' that a European statesman would write of the decadence of Europe and a European thinker dilate upon the decline of the West.Introductory summary by J. P. T. Bury
Economic change and growth by Herbert Heaton
The scientific movement and its influence on thought and material development by A. R. Hall
Religion and the relations of churches and states by Norman Sykes
Education and the press by John Roach
Art and architecture by Nikolaus Pevsner
Imaginative literature by Erich Heller
Liberalism and constitutional developments by J. A. Hawgood
Nationalities and nationalism by J. P. T. Bury
The system of alliances and the balance of power by Gordon Craig
Armed forces and the art of war: navies by Michael Lewis
Armed forces and the art of war: armies by B. H. Liddell Hart
The united kingdom and its world-wide interests by David Thomson
Russia in Europe and Asia by J. M. K. Vyvyan
The revolutions of 1848 by Charles Pouthas
The Mediterranean by C. W. Crawley
The Second Empire in France by Paul Farmer
The Crimean War by Agatha Ramm
Prussia and The German Problem, 1830–66 by James Joll
The Austrian Empire and its problems, 1848–67 by C. A. Macartney
Italy by D. Mack Smith
The origins of the Franco-Prussian war and the remaking of Germany by Michael Foot
National and sectional forces in the United States by D. M. Potter
The American Civil War by T. Harry Williams
The states of Latin America by R. A. Humphreys
The Far East by G. F. Hudson