Stephens follows Europe year by year from the meeting of the States-General in 1789 to Waterloo, tracing the ideas of popular sovereignty, nationality and personal liberty, the Revolution’s wars, Napoleon’s campaigns from Italy to Russia, and the reshaping of Germany, Italy and Spain, with attention to the old order of serfs, nobles and benevolent despots that preceded it.
A solid narrative history of the age that made modern Europe. Download the free EPUB.