A Companion to Nineteenth‐century Europe 1789‐1914

The Blackwell Companions now form an impressive library of high quality subject guides to history, world history, American history, British history, and European history (to use the titles of the separate series). These books provide critical and authoritative overviews of the scholarship that underlies our current understanding of, in this case, Europe's “long nineteenth century”.

This volume comprises 32 essays averaging 14 pages each, written by specialist historians from around the world. The prose is accessible, avoiding unnecessary academic speak and jargon, in fact providing an enjoyable text that I would be pleased to put on my own shelves. In...