The History of Western Europe in Modern Times. The 19th Century

The history of Western Europe in modern times.
The development of cultural and social relations.
The 19th century. Consulate, Empire, and Restoration.

This publication includes the fundamental work of the famous Russian historian and sociologist Nikolai Ivanovich Kareev "The History of Western Europe in Modern Times" (published from 1893 to 1917), which covers a significant period of European history, starting from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century. This work emerged from the general courses on modern history that he lectured, aimed at clarifying the significance of two main upheavals in the life of Western Europe over the last four centuries, namely the Reformation and the Revolution, in connection with the general nature of modern history and its distinction from medieval history. The book is written at a high theoretical level with the involvement of an enormous amount of sources. Historical events are illuminated in connection with the general cultural context, allowing the reader to see some hidden mechanisms that drive the historical process and trace their mutual influence, providing the breadth of perspective necessary for historical analysis, and following the process of forming the modern European. The book is published for the first time since its original release.
The fourth volume "The 19th Century. Consulate, Empire, and Restoration" covers the events of the first decades of the 19th century. Kareev emphasizes the profound changes that the French Revolution brought about in European public consciousness. The author writes: "Similar to the Reformation, which began in Germany and spread from there to all of Western Europe, the revolution of 1789, which was initially... a purely local event as a political and social upheaval in the French monarchy, soon acquired universal significance both by its influence on the rest of Europe and for the reason that this revolution was merely one manifestation of an important historical process that took place in the cultural and social life of the Romance and Germanic peoples".
The book can be recommended both for professional historians and for anyone interested in the history of Europe.