From Napoleon to the second international, essays on nineteenth-century Europe
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From Napoleon to the second international, essays on nineteenth-century Europe
（Penguin history）
Penguin, 1995
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First published by Hamish Hamilton, 1993
Includes index
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Description
These collected essays represent the best work of Alan Taylor. Some of the essays have appeared previously in "The Penguin Collected Essays" and some have not been published before in volume form.
Table of Contents
- Accident Prone, or What Happened Next
- The Historian as a Biographer
- Fiction in History
- Tory History
- The Thing
- British Pamphleteers
- Napoleon - On Himself, The Verdict of History
- Charles James Fox
- Talleyrand's Cut
- Metternich
- Metternich and His "System" for Europe
- Cobbett - Voice of the Many, The People's Champion
- Castlereagh
- Wellington - Silly Soldier Man?
- Sir Robert Peel - Orange Peel, The Cotton Spinner's Son
- Macaulay - The Man Who was Always Right, Leviathan of History
- Carlyle - Trevelyan's Carlyle, Carlyle Warts and All
- Lord John Russell - The Last Great Whig
- Genocide
- 1848 - Year of Revolution, The French Revolution, Vienna and Berlin, The Slav Congress
- 1848 - Opening of an Era
- The Last of Old Europe
- Crimea - The War That Would Not Boil
- John Bright and the Crimean War
- John Bright - Hero or Humbug?
- Ranke - The Dedicated Historian
- Cavour and Garibaldi
- Men of 1862 - Napoleon III, Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria, Lord Palmerston, Alexander I1, Tsar of Russia, Karl Marx, Bismarck
- Bismarck and Europe
- Marx's Better Half
- The Paris Commune
- Dizzy
- The G 0 M
- Parnell - The Uncrowned King
- Lord Salisbury - Last Tory and First Unionist
- John Morley - Intellectual in Politics
- Keir Hardie - Labour's Moses
- The Second International
- The Vienna of Schnitzler
- York
- Manchester
- Edge of Britain - A Lancashire Journey - A Southport Childhood, The Boarding House Culture, Across the Morecambe Sands, Preston Revisited.
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