The Rise of
Modern Europe

THE ENLIGHTENMENT:

1. Divine Right of Kings: A Necessary Evolution?


2. Emergence of the Absolute Monarchs


3. The Age of Louis XIV


4. The Baroque World: Music from Heaven?


5. Age of the Enlightenment: An interpretation

THE AGE OF REVOLUTION:

1. The French Revolution: An Interpretation


2. France after the Revolution


3. Society in Post-Napoleonic France


4. The British Reform Act of 1832


5. The 1848 Revolutions in Europe

THE AGE OF REALISM:

1. The Rise of Prussia


2. Prussian Militarism


3. The Unification of Germany


4. Unification of Italy


5. France's 2nd Empire & 3rd Republic


6. Survival of the Fittest: Drifting towards war


7. Social Darwinism & the Great War

A BRIEF HISTORY OF RUSSIA:

1. A Brief Outline of Russia till 1917


2. Red October 1917