A Sense of History: Europe since Napoleon
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A Sense of History: Europe since Napoleon

, Robert C. Binkley

Table of Contents

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1. Periods and Distances
1. The Past and the Future: Lifetimes and Generations
2. Generations as Measures of Change
3. The Era of Nationalism and the Modern Age
4. The Four Most Recent Ages
5. Distances, Geographic and Social
6. Territorial-Political Organizations
7. The World Network
2. Families: Households, Dynasties, Races
1. Family as race: The blood-stream in the long period
2. Family as dynasty: Planned coincidence of blood and property.
2.1. Dynastic motivation
2.2. Specific family histories―Wedgwood; Juke; Coburg
2.2.1. The Wedgwoods
2.2.2. The Jukes
2.2.3. The Coburgs
2.3. Inheritance law
2.4. Dynasty vs. corporation
2.5. Families as households. How an understanding of them aids an understanding of larger groups.
2.5.1. Internal property
2.5.2. Internal law
2.6. How families are connected with the outside world
3. Land and Livelihood: Villages
4. Cities
5. States
A. Conclusion
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