Table of Contents

Part 1 The Principle of Legitimacy; Chapter 1 Napoleon's Successors; Chapter 2 The Congress of Vienna; Chapter 3 The Holy Alliance; Chapter 4 The Twilight of Metternich; Part 2 The March of Mind; The Social Background; Chapter 5 The Aristocracy; Chapter 6 Country Life; Chapter 7 Industrial Life; The Philosophical Radicals; Chapter 8 Malthus; Chapter 9 Bentham; Chapter 10 James Mill; Chapter 11 Ricardo; Chapter 12 The Benthamite Doctrine; Chapter 13 Democracy in England; Chapter 14 Free Trade; Socialism; Chapter 15 Owen and Early British Socialism; Chapter 16 Early Trade Unionism; Chapter 17 Marx and Engels; Chapter 18 Dialectical Materialism; Chapter 19 The Theory of Surplus Value; Chapter 20 The Politics of Marxism; Part 3 Democracy and Plutocracy in America; Democracy in America; Chapter 21 Jeffersonian Democracy; Chapter 22 The Settlement of the West; Chapter 23 Jacksonian Democracy; Chapter 24 Slavery and Disunion; Chapter 25 Lincoln and National Unity; Competition and Monopoly in America; Chapter 26 Competitive Capitalism; Chapter 27 The Approach to Monopoly; Part 4 Nationalism and Imperialism; Chapter 28 The Principle of Nationality; Chapter 29 Bismarck and German Unity; Chapter 30 The Economic Development of the German Empire; Chapter 31 Imperialism; Chapter 32 The Arbiters of Europe;

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Bertrand Russell

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'The purpose of this book is to trace the opposition and interaction of two main causes of change in the Nineteenth century: the belief in freedom which was common to Liberals and Radicals, and the necessity for organization which arose through industrial and scientific technique.' - Bertrand Russell