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Early modern Europe : an Oxford history / edited by Euan Cameron.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) D228 .E187 1999
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LIBRA D228 .E187 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Europe--History--1492-1648.
- Europe.
- History.
- Europe--History--17th century.
- Europe--History--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- xxxi, 402 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- This extensively illustrated book offers a new kind of introduction to Europe between 1500 and 1800. It considers the evolving economy and society -- the basic facts of life for the majority of Europe's people. It shows how the religious and intellectual unity of western culture fragmented and dissolved under the impact of new ideas. It also examines politics to consider the emergence of modern attitudes and techniques in governing.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Europe and the World Around / Anthony Pagden 1
- Europe: The Myths of Europe
- A Continent and its Peoples
- The Cultural Inheritance
- Frontiers and Boundaries
- Technologies and their Impact
- The Sense of being European
- The Quest for Peace and Union
- I. The Sixteenth Century, c.1500-c.1618 29
- 1. The Conditions of Life for the Masses / Alison Rowlands 31
- Who were the Masses?
- The Peasant Household
- The Peasant Life-Cycle
- Ways of Coping
- Wider Links: Village, Lordship, Market
- The Processes of Change
- The Effects of Change
- The Urban Experience of the Lower Orders
- 2. The Power of the Word: Renaissance and Reformation / Euan Cameron 63
- The Renaissance and the Word
- The Word Written and Printed
- The Ancient Word and the Ancient Tongue
- The Word of Exhortation
- Describing the World and the Universe
- The Word of Faith: The Old Faith
- The Reformation Challenge
- Reformed Churches and Reformed People
- The Old Church Responds
- 3. War, Religion, and the State / Steven Gunn 102
- States and Borders
- The Habsburgs and their Rivals
- War and the State
- Courts and Government
- Society, Justice, and Sovereignty
- The Impact of Religious Change
- The Impact of Religious Division
- The Weak Monarchies of the East and the Coming of the Thirty Years War
- II. The Seventeenth Century, c.1618-c.1715 135
- 4. Colonies, Enterprises, and Wealth: the Economies of Europe and the Wider World / R. A. Houston 137
- Introduction: Europe and the Wider World in 1600
- People
- Land
- Cities
- Manufactures
- States, Colonies, and Commerce
- Europe and the Wider World
- Conclusion: A New World Economy?
- 5. Embattled Faiths: Religion and Natural Philosophy / Robin Briggs 171
- The Legacy of Renaissance and Reformation
- Religion: Rigour and Reform
- Religious Motives in Politics and War
- Dogma, Faith, and Society
- The Decline of the Devil
- Reason and the 'Crisis of Conscience
- The Reception and Resumption of the New Science
- Matter and Void: Descartes's System and its Opponents
- New Instruments and New Sciences
- The Quest for Practical Applications
- 6. Warfare, Crisis, and Absolutism / Jeremy Black 206
- The Expansion of Europe
- Warfare as an Agent of Change
- The 'Thirty Years War' in Europe, 1618-48
- Conflict between France and Spain
- The British Civil Wars
- 'Absolutism'
- Louis XIV
- Louis XIV's Foreign Policy
- Vienna Saved
- The Rise of Russia
- III. The Eighteenth Century, c.1715-c.1789 231
- 7. A Widening Market in Consumer Goods / James C. Riley 233
- Population
- Work and Income
- One Conundrum
- Agriculture
- Manufacturing and Industry
- Trade and Transport
- The State Sector
- Consumption
- Wages and Prices: Another Conundrum
- 8. The Enlightenment / Norman Hampson 265
- The Scale of Change
- Man in his Universe
- Economy and Society
- Politics
- Diversity across Countries and Regions
- The French Revolution and the Enlightenment
- 9. Europe Turns East: Political Developments / H. M. Scott 298
- The Wars of c.1680
- 1721 and Europe's Balance of Power
- The Burdens of War and their Impact upon Government
- Frederick the Great and the Rise of Prussia
- Modern States or Composite Monarchies
- Enlightened Government
- Russian Expansion and French Crisis
- Epilogue: The Old Order Transformed 1789-1815 / T. C. W. Blanning 345
- The Outbreak of the French Revolution
- The Creation of a New France and a New World
- The Failure of the Constitutional Monarchy
- The Coming of War and the End of the Monarchy
- Counter-revolution and the Terror
- Towards Military Dictatorship
- Reconstruction at Home
- The Conquest of Europe
- Decline and Fall
- The Legacy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [375]-380) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0198205287
- 0198207603
- OCLC:
- 39256132
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