Pamela M. Pilbeam is Reader in Modern European History at the University of London. She is the author of The Middle Classes in Europe 1789–1914 (1990), The 1830 Revolution in France (1991), and Republicanism in Nineteenth-Century France 1814–71 (1994).

• List of Maps 1. Introducing Europe in Revolution and War, Pamela Pilbeam ; 2. The French Revolution Julian Swann 3. Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Revolution, Robert Alexander ; 4. The Eastern Empires from the Ancien Rgime to the Challenge of the French Wars 1780-c1806 Brendan Simms ; 5. the Eastern Empires from the Challenge of Napoleon to the Restoration c1806-1830, Brendan Simms 6. The `Restoration' of Western Europe 1814-15 Pamela Pilbeam ; 7. Revolutionary Movements in Western Europe 1814-1830 Pamela Pilbeam ; 8. The Challenge of Industrialization Colin Heywood 9. The Growth of Population, Colin Heywood ; 10. European Society in Revolution , Pamela Pilbeam 11. Reason and Romanticism: Currents of Social and Political Thought , Michael Biddiss ; Conclusion: Liberty and Order?, Pamela Pilbeam ; Chronology of Main Events Contributors

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