Europe in crisis, 1598-1648 / Geoffrey Parker.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Parker, Geoffrey, 1943-

Contributor:

• Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
• Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

• Blackwell classic histories of Europe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Europe--History--17th century.
• Europe.
• History.

Physical Description:

xx, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

Summary:

• Europe in Crisis provides an authoritative account of the tumultuous first half of the seventeenth century. During this period the continent was embroiled in revolution, civil war, and complex international conflicts. The author skillfully illuminates the period, placing the upheavals within the context of world experience and providing a clear narrative account of the political, social, economic, and intellectual developments which brought so much of Europe to the edge of chaos during the 1640s.
• The book examines 3 crucial conflicts: the struggle of Habsburg Spain with France and the Dutch Republic; the rivalry of Sweden and Poland, which eventually ruined Denmark and Russia; and the confrontation between the Austrian Habsburgs and the estates of their hereditary provinces, which ultimately escalated into the Thirty Years' War. The new edition of this classic has been revised throughout and includes an updated bibliography.

Contents:

• Prelude: Prague Spring xvii
• 1 European Society and the Economy
• 1 Climate and Crisis 1
• 2 Rich and Poor 10
• 3 Supply and Demand 18
• 4 An Economy on the Edge of Crisis 25
• 2 European Society and the State
• 1 The Theory of Absolutism 29
• 2 Religious Absolutism 35
• 3 Political Absolutism 40
• 4 The State and War 48
• 3 The Time of Troubles in the East, 1593-1618
• 1 The Austrian Habsburgs and the Turks 57
• 2 The Vasas and their Enemies 68
• 3 The Rape of Russia 75
• 4 Armed Neutrality in the West, 1598-1618
• 1 The Recovery of France 82
• 2 The Netherlands Divided 94
• 3 Spain under Philip III 106
• 5 The Apogee of Habsburg Imperialism, 1618-1629
• 1 The Bohemian Revolt 117
• 2 Years of Victory 124
• 3 Rise and Fall of a Coalition 131
• 4 France and the Cold War for Italy 140
• 6 The Defeat of the Habsburgs, 1629-1635
• 1 Sweden and Poland 152
• 2 Gustavus Adolphus and Wallenstein 157
• 3 The Cardinal-Infante 169
• 7 War and Revolution, 1635-1648
• 1 On the Edge of Disaster 177
• 2 The Crisis of the Spanish Monarchy 186
• 3 France Resurgent 193
• 4 The End of the Eighty Years' War 198
• 5 The End of the Thirty Years' War 200
• 8 The Culture of Post-Renaissance Europe
• 1 War and Culture 210
• 2 The Culture of Everyday Life 218
• 3 Elite Culture 234.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [292]-310) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

• 0631220275
• 0631220283

OCLC:

46353310

Online:

The Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund Home Page