The Wiley-Blackwell Dictionary of Modern European History Since 1789

Nicholas Atkin, Michael Biddiss, Frank Tallett

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Année: 2011
• ISBN:
  9781444390728
• Édition: 1
• Sujet: Histoire
• Sous-sujet: Histoire moderne

The Wiley-Blackwell Dictionary of Modern European History Since 1789 is an authoritative and accessible reference guide to the major people, events, and issues that have shaped the development of Europe from the French Revolution to the present day.

• Features almost a thousand alphabetical entries on modern European history
• Offers extensive cross-references to enhance clarity and reveal historical links and connections, and aseries of maps charting the evolution of modern European states
• Covers the whole of continental Europe, as well as relevant aspects of the British experience
• Written by a trio of distinguished historians of the period

Summary Listing of Entries and Principal Cross-Headings

A

Aaland (Åland) Islands

Abdul Hamid II (of Turkey)

Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of

Abgrenzung

absolutism

Abwehr

Abyssinian War (see ITALO-ETHIOPIAN WAR)

acquis communautaire

Action Française

Adenauer, Konrad

Adrianople, Treaty of

Aehrenthal, Alois Baron Lexa von

Africa, Scramble for (see under IMPERIALISM)

Agadir crisis (see under MOROCCAN CRISES)

agitprop

agriculture (see under RURAL SOCIETY)

Aix-la-Chapelle, Congress of (see under CONGRESS SYSTEM)

Albania

Albert

Alexander I (of Russia)

Alexander I (of Yugoslavia)

Alexander II (of Russia)

Alexander III (of Russia)

Alfonso XII (of Spain)

Alfonso XIII (of Spain

Algeciras Conference (see under MOROCCAN CRISES)

Algerian War

Alsace-Lorraine

Alto Adige (see SOUTH TYROL)

Amendola, Giovanni

Amiens, Treaty of

Amsterdam, Treaty of

anarchism

Ancien Regime

Andorra (see MICRO-STATES[1])

Andrassy, Count Gyula

Andreotti, Giulio

Andropov, Yuri

Anglo-French Union

Anglo-German naval agreement

Anglo-Russian Entente

Anschluss

anticlericalism

Anti-Comintern Pact

antisemitism

Antonescu, Ion

apparatchik

appeasement

aristocracy

Armenian genocide

Arrow Cross

artel

artisans

Aryanism (see under RACISM)

assignats

Attatürk, Kemal

August decrees

Auschwitz camp (see under CONCENTRATION CAMPS)

Ausgleich

Austerlitz, Battle of

Austria

Austrian Netherlands

Austro-Hungarian empire (see under HABSBURG EMPIRE; AUSGLEICH)

Austro-Prussian War

Axis, Rome–Berlin

Azaña, Manuel

B

Baader–Meinhof Group

Babeuf, François-Noël (“Gracchus”)

Bach, Alexander, Baron von

Badoglio, Pietro

Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich

Balbo, Cesare

Balkan Entente

Balkan Leagues

Balkan Pact

Balkan Wars

Balkans

Ballhausplatz

Baltic States

banking

Barbarossa, Operation

Barrès, Maurice

Basic Treaty

Basle, Treaties of

Basques

Bastille, fall of the

Batavian Republic

Battle of Britain

Bauer, Gustav

Bavaria

Beck, Józef

Beer Hall putsch

Belarus

Belgium

Benelux

Beneš, Edvard

Beria, Lavrenti

Berlin blockade

Berlin Conference

Berlin Congress

Berlin Wall

Berlinguer, Enrico

Berlusconi, Silvio

Bernadotte, Jean-Baptiste

Bernstein, Eduard

Bessarabia (see under MOLDAVIA; MOLDOVA; ROMANIA)

Bethman...