History of Modern Europe Vol. 1 : From the Renaissance to the Age of Napoleon
ISBN: 9780393933840 | 0393933849
Edition: 3rdFormat: Textbook Paperback
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 9/17/2009
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Available in both one-volume and two-volume paperback editions, A History of Modern Europe presents a panoramic survey of modern Europe from the Renaissance to the present day. A single author lends a unified approach and consistent style throughout, with an emphasis on the connections of events and people over time. The Third Edition, like the two before it, is authoritative and up-to-date. New to the Third Edition is the theme of empire. From the imperial rivalries between France and Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, through t... MORE
| List of Maps | |
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Foundations | |
| Medieval Legacies and Transforming Discoveries | |
| Medieval Continuities | |
| The Emergence of Early Modern Europe | |
| Transforming Discoveries | |
| Conclusion | |
| The Renaissance | |
| The City-States of the Italian Peninsula | |
| A... MORE | |
| Renaissance Art | |
| The End of the Renaissance | |
| The Two Reformations | |
| The Northern Renaissance | |
| The Roots of the Reformation | |
| Social Background of the Reformation in the German States | |
| The Spread of the Reformation | |
| The Reformation in Switzerland and France | |
| The English Reformation | |
| The Catholic Reformation | |
| Culture during the Two Reformations | |
| The Legacy of the Two Reformations | |
| The Wars of Religion | |
| The Wars of Religion in Sixteenth-Century France | |
| The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) | |
| Statemaking | |
| The Rise of the Atlantic Economy: Spain and England | |
| Economic Expansion | |
| The Rise of Spain | |
| The Rise of England | |
| The Decline of Spain | |
| Conclusion | |
| England and the Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century | |
| Conflicts in Stuart England | |
| Religious Divisions | |
| The English Civil War | |
| The Glorious Revolution | |
| The Golden Age of the Dutch Republic | |
| The Decline of the Dutch Republic | |
| Conclusion | |
| The Age of Absolutism, 1650-1720 | |
| Theories of Absolutism | |
| Characterizing Absolute Rule | |
| The Balance of Power | |
| The Habsburg Monarchy | |
| The Rise of Prussia | |
| The Russian and Swedish Empires | |
| The Modern State | |
| New Cultural and Political Horizon | |
| The New Philosophy of Science | |
| Changing Views of the Universe | |
| Descartes and Newton: Competing Theories of Scientific Knowledge | |
| The Culture of Science | |
| Consequences of the Scientific Revolution | |
| Enlightened Thought and the Republic of Letters | |
| Enlightened Ideas | |
| The Diffusion and Expansion of the Enlightenment | |
| Enlightened Absolutism | |
| Currents of the Late Enlightenment | |
| Legacy of the Enlightenment | |
| Eighteenth-Century Economic and Social Change | |
| The Social Order | |
| The Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution | |
| Social Changes | |
| Social Control | |
| A Century of Contrasts | |
| Eighteenth-Century Dynastic Rivalries and Politics 386 | |
| The Eighteenth-Century State System | |
| Conflicts between the Great Powers | |
| Political Change in Great Britain | |
| Challenges to Established Authority | |
| Declining Power, Disappearing State: The Ottoman Empire and Poland | |
| Revolutionary Europe, 1789-1850 | |
| The French Revolution | |
| The Old Regime in Crisis | |
| The First Stages of the Revolution | |
| Consolidating the Revolution | |
| War and the Second Revolution | |
| The Final Stages of the Revolution | |
| Perspectives on the French Revolution | |
| Napoleon and Europe | |
| Napoleon's Rise to Power | |
| Consolidation of Power | |
| The Foundations of the French Empire | |
| The Tide Turns against Napoleon | |
| Monarchical Restoration and Napoleon's Return | |
| Napoleon's Legacy | |
| Further Readings | |
| Credits | |
| Index | |
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