From Metternich to Bismarck: A Textbook of European History: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

From Metternich to Bismarck: A Textbook of European History, credited to Lionel Cecil Jane, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of From Metternich to Bismarck: A Textbook of European History by Lionel Cecil Jane. Read in English by Pamela Nagami. This short work opens in 1815, at the close of a period of twenty-five years of almost continuous war. The Congress of Vienna assembled to consider the restoration of the old order. Our author writes, "they rejected the ideal of 'nationality', the principle of the 'rights of peoples', opposing to it the principle of 'stability', founded upon recognition of the 'rights of sovereigns' and upon the establishment of a balance of power." This was the Metternich system, which fell before the revolutions of 1848. Participation in the Crimean War earned nascent Italy a seat at the diplomatic table and Cavour began the campaign for Italian Unification. The Prussian junker Bismarck emerged and, through deft diplomacy and short wars, engineered the downfall of Austria and France, and created the modern German state. (Summary by Pamela Nagami, M.D.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: From Metternich to Bismarck: A Textbook of European History
• Author credits: Lionel Cecil Jane
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 9:44:17

Catalogue topics

• ottoman empire
• revolutions of 1848
• otto von bismarck
• napoleon iii
• the crimean war
• klemens von metternich
• congress of vienna
• guiseppe garibaldi

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 - Ch. 1: The Metternich System, Pt. 1 — 22:40
2. 02 - Ch. 1: The Metternich System, Pt. 2 — 21:25
3. 03 - Ch. 1: The Metternich System, Pt. 3 — 25:04
4. 04 - Ch. 2: The Independence of Greece, Pt. 1 — 19:36
5. 05 - Ch. 2: The Independence of Greece, Pt. 2 — 24:16
6. 06 - Ch. 2: The Independence of Greece, Pt. 3 — 20:47
7. 07 - Ch. 3: The Revolutions of 1830, Pt. 1 — 25:28
8. 08 - Ch. 3: The Revolutions of 1830, Pt. 2 — 22:07
9. 09 - Ch. 3: The Revolutions of 1830, Pt. 3 — 25:01
10. 10 - Ch. 4: The Fall of Metternich, Pt. 1 — 25:00
11. 11 - Ch. 4: The Fall of Metternich, Pt. 2 — 18:14
12. 12 - Ch. 4: The Fall of Metternich, Pt. 3 — 26:12
13. 13 - Ch. 5: The Year 1848, Pt. 1 — 22:39
14. 14 - Ch. 5: The Year 1848, Pt. 2 — 26:04
15. 15 - Ch. 6: The Restoration of Order, Pt. 1 — 19:39
16. 16 - Ch. 6: The Restoration of Order, Pt. 2 — 19:41
17. 17 - Ch. 6: The Restoration of Order, Pt. 3 — 22:30
18. 18 - Ch. 7: The Union of Italy, Pt. 1 — 24:53
19. 19 - Ch. 7: The Union of Italy, Pt. 2 — 24:51
20. 20 - Ch. 8: The Fall of Austria, Pt. 1 — 27:32
21. 21 - Ch. 8: The Fall of Austria, Pt. 2 — 20:30
22. 22 - Ch. 9: The Fall of France, Pt. 1 — 22:30
23. 23 - Ch. 9: The Fall of France, Pt. 2 — 29:15
24. 24 - Ch. 10: The Bismarck System, Pt. 1 — 21:56

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