Mason's "Revolutionary Europe" - a Review Book Review by Top Papers

This paper provides a review of Mason's book "Revolutionary Europe 1789-1989-Liberty, Equality, Solidarity," explaining that during the nineteenth century in Europe, a number of social and political movements developed based around certain ideas about human behavior and society and the relationship between the two. These ideas have come to be called the "isms" because that is how the terms used all end, those terms being nationalism, liberalism, feminism, and socialism. The paper asserts that these became entrenched as ideologies or as the expression of underlying ideologies, and much of their genesis, development, and progress in the nineteenth century is described by Mason's work.