Europe Transformed: 1878-1919 (Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe)

This book provides readers with an introduction to the complex era from 1878 to the end of World War I. 'This book is a fascinating introduction to the complex era from 1878 to the end of World War. The forty years before 1914 were a period of extraordinary peace and prosperity, but this world came to a dramatic end with the start of the First World War. Stone explores the political history of the period running up to the war, setting events in the context of social, economic and cultural changes.'