THE RISE OF GERMANY TO PREDOMINANCE IN EUROPE

Written by hgwells | Published 2023/02/20
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TLDRWe have told how after the convulsion of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic adventure, Europe settled down again for a time to an insecure peace and a sort of modernized revival of the political conditions of fifty years before. Until the middle of the century the new facilities in the handling of steel and the railway and steamship produced no marked political consequences. But the social tension due to the development of urban industrialism grew. France remained a conspicuously uneasy country. The revolution of 1830 was followed by another in 1848. Then Napoleon III, a nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, became first President, and then (in 1852) Emperor.via the TL;DR App

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Written by hgwells | English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine.
Published by HackerNoon on 2023/02/20