Fyffe traces European politics from the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in 1792 to the settlement of 1878. He covers the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire, Napoleon’s rise and fall, the Congress of Vienna, the Greek war of independence, the revolutions of 1848, and the making of Italy and Germany, keeping diplomacy and war in steady view.
A standard Victorian narrative of the century that remade Europe, clear and still useful as a single-volume overview. Download the free EPUB.