Essential Collection Volume 1: Bastille to Sarajevo

The Essential Collection are resource books for modern history containing some of the essential primary sources - both text and pictorial - on the major events of the period covered in each volume.

Each volume also includes biographies, built up from primary sources, of many of the major individuals involved in the events. Each source is introduced with notes to place the source in its historical context and to explain the historical significance of the source.

Volume One provides material from the French Revolution to the outbreak of the First World War.

Volume Two covers the major events from the First World War to the outbreak of war in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

Contents

• Introduction
• History as enquiry
• The nature of primary source evidence
• The nature of secondary sources
• Four levels of meaning in evidence
• Writing paragraphs in historical studies
• Glossary of historical terms
• Part 1: The Rights of Humankind
  Items 1-12
• Part 2: Reaction, Repression and Revolution
  Items 13-18
• Part 3: Social and Economic Forces for Change: The Agrarian and Industrial Revolutions
  Items 19-29
• Part 4: Legislating for Human Freedoms and for Parliamentary Democracy
  Items 30-45
• Part 5: Beliefs, Ideologies and Arguments
  Items 46-59
• Part 6: Education and Individualism
  Items 60-71
• Part 7: Devotion to Nationalism
  Items 72-81
• Part 8: Nations and Imperialism
  Items 82-93
• Part 9: European Intrusions in Asia
  Items 94-103
• Part 10: Reaction and Revolution in Russia
  Items 104-111
• Part 11: International Relations 1815-1914
  Items 112-126