The New Cambridge Modern History, Vol. 11: Material Progress and World-Wide Problems, 1870-98 Vol. 11

This volume of The New Cambridge Modern History examines the period at the end of the nineteenth century. Volume XI covers a period of contrasts in European and World history, of material expansion and economic depression, of improved conditions and widespread poverty and degradation, a period of armed peace. The text of the volume, first published in 1962, is reprinted unchanged. This volume of the The New Cambridge Modern History looks specifically at the American and French Revolutions in the eighteenth century. A comprehensive examination of the political, economic, social, and cultural development of the world from 1493 to 1945