Struggle for Mastery in Europe: 1848-1918 (Revised)

The fall of Metternic in the revolutions which swept Europe in 1948 heralded an era of unprecedented nationalism, which culminated in the collapse of the Halbsburg, Romanav, and Hohenszollern dynasties at the of the First World War. In the intervening seventy years which are the subject of this book, the boundaries of Europe changed dramatically from those established at Vienna in 1815: Cavour championed the cause of "Risorgimento" in Italy; Bismarck brought about the unification of Germany; while the Great Powers scrambled for a place in the sun in Africa.