Europa auf dem Weg in die Moderne 1850-1890

The Europe of the years 1850 to 1890 is characterized by manifold disparities, ruptures and upheavals. Enthusiasm for modernity stood next to pessimism about progress, radical social change next to traditional ways of life and structures. Thus, it is not the unity of the epoch that earlier studies had suggested, but its diversity that has moved to the center of research. In his introduction, Lothar Gall follows structural approaches and comparative approaches. In this way, he opens up a dazzling period of simultaneity of the non-simultaneous to students and those interested in history.