The nineteenth century, 1815-1914 / Cairns, John C. (John Campbell) 

Public ISBD Titre : The nineteenth century, 1815-1914 Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Cairns, John C. (John Campbell), Auteur Editeur : New York : Free Press Année de publication : ©1965. Importance : vii, 263 p. Format : 21 cm Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Nineteenth century. Mots-clés : Nineteenth century Note de contenu : 1815: prologue to peace -- The shifting sands of conservative politics -- Intimations of an egalitarian society -- The social consequences of industrial progress -- The specter of socialism -- Liberal nationalism on trial -- Contacts of civilizations -- Romanticism and realism -- Religion and the challenge of humanism -- Science and the nature of man -- Cultural conflict and civil war -- War shifts the European balance -- The imperial urge -- Cuba: imperialism in a bloodsmitten land -- Justice in the industrial society -- Justice for the one and the many, in the new world and the old -- Currents of optimism and pessimism -- Prospects for peace and war -- The faltering promise of America -- Aristocratic twilight -- The lamps go out. Prince Metternich appeals to a true friend to order and public peace -- Alexis de Tocqueville seeks the image of democracy itself -- Lord Ashley on the spectacles of suffering and oppression in industrial England -- Marx and Engels: let the ruling classes tremble -- Mazzini: the map of Europe has to be re-made -- Commodore Perry knocks at the door of a people so inquisitive and acute -- Flaubert: oh, if ever I produce a good book I'll have worked for it! -- Renan on the founder of the eternal religion of humanity -- The highly distasteful conclusions of Charles Darwin -- Lincoln requests the legal means for making this contest a short and decisive one -- 1870-71: General von Moltke reports this dreadful war -- Imperialism is the law of the universe, and we cannot alter it -- Some favored a United States protectorate, some annexation, some free Cuba -- Every one must put his hand to the work which falls to his share -- We shall remember the splendid acts of self-sacrifice, we shall recall our noble friends -- Burckhardt reflects that the great harm was begun in the last century -- Zola on the armed peace: it is war killing war -- The progressive assault upon an excessively individualized democracy -- The house of lords debates whether to perish in the dark -- The dark shadow moves over the map of the continent. The nineteenth century, 1815-1914 [texte imprimé] / Cairns, John C. (John Campbell), Auteur . - New York : Free Press, ©1965. . - vii, 263 p. ; 21 cm. Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Nineteenth century. Mots-clés : Nineteenth century Note de contenu : 1815: prologue to peace -- The shifting sands of conservative politics -- Intimations of an egalitarian society -- The social consequences of industrial progress -- The specter of socialism -- Liberal nationalism on trial -- Contacts of civilizations -- Romanticism and realism -- Religion and the challenge of humanism -- Science and the nature of man -- Cultural conflict and civil war -- War shifts the European balance -- The imperial urge -- Cuba: imperialism in a bloodsmitten land -- Justice in the industrial society -- Justice for the one and the many, in the new world and the old -- Currents of optimism and pessimism -- Prospects for peace and war -- The faltering promise of America -- Aristocratic twilight -- The lamps go out. Prince Metternich appeals to a true friend to order and public peace -- Alexis de Tocqueville seeks the image of democracy itself -- Lord Ashley on the spectacles of suffering and oppression in industrial England -- Marx and Engels: let the ruling classes tremble -- Mazzini: the map of Europe has to be re-made -- Commodore Perry knocks at the door of a people so inquisitive and acute -- Flaubert: oh, if ever I produce a good book I'll have worked for it! -- Renan on the founder of the eternal religion of humanity -- The highly distasteful conclusions of Charles Darwin -- Lincoln requests the legal means for making this contest a short and decisive one -- 1870-71: General von Moltke reports this dreadful war -- Imperialism is the law of the universe, and we cannot alter it -- Some favored a United States protectorate, some annexation, some free Cuba -- Every one must put his hand to the work which falls to his share -- We shall remember the splendid acts of self-sacrifice, we shall recall our noble friends -- Burckhardt reflects that the great harm was begun in the last century -- Zola on the armed peace: it is war killing war -- The progressive assault upon an excessively individualized democracy -- The house of lords debates whether to perish in the dark -- The dark shadow moves over the map of the continent.

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