Romanians, 1774-1866 - Hitchins, Keith (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Illinois, USA)

Examines the building of the European nation which became Romania in 1859. The century between the 1770s and the 1860s was marked by a transition from agrarian economic and social structures, locked into a medieval political system, to a society moulded by urban and industrial values and held together by allegiance to the nation-state.