The new Cambridge modern history. Volume 7, The Old Regime, 1713-1763 / edited by J.O. Lindsay.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lindsay, J. O., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--History--18th century.

Europe.

Enlightenment--Europe.

Enlightenment.

Europe--Politics and government--18th century.

History, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 592 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1957.

Summary:

This volume surveys the political, military and diplomatic history of a period of changing alliances and limited and gentlemanly but frequent wars. It gives particular weight to the emergence of Prussia and Russia as European Powers and to the rivalry of France and England in America, in India and on the high seas. The economic background to these national fortunes is of increasing international trade, technological progress and colonialisation. Socially, European society slowly evolved from the domination of the aristocracy to that of urban populations and bourgeois administrators. Intellectually, the culture of Europe took on what are recognized as specifically eighteenth-century forms and ideals. From the point of view of world history this period saw the confirmation of European pre-eminence and dominion.

Contents:

The growth of overseas commerce and European manufacture / C.H. Wilson

The social classes and the foundations of the states / J.O. Lindsay

The visual arts and imaginative literature / Albert Richardson

The Enlightenment / A. Cobban

Religion / R.W. Greaves

Monarchy and administration : European practice / J.O. Lindsay

The English inspiration / W.R. Brock

The armed forces and the art of war / Eric Robson

International relations / J.O. Lindsay

The decline of divine-right monarchy in France / A. Cobban

England / W.R. Brock

The western Mediterranean and Italy / J.O. Lindsay

The organisation and rise of Prussia / W.H. Bruford

Russia / Ian Young

Scandinavia and the Baltic / R.M. Hatton

Poland under the Saxon kings / L.R. Lewitter

The Habsburg dominions / C.A. Macartney

The war of the Austrian succession / Mark A. Thomson

The diplomatic revolution / D.R. Horn

The Seven Years War / Eric Robson

The development of the American communities : Latin America / J.H. Parry

North America / Frank Thistlethwaite

Rivalries in America : The Caribbean / J.H. Parry

The North American continent / Frank Thistlethwaite

Rivalries in India / C.C. Davies

Economic relations in Africa and the Far East : Africa / J. Gallagher

Asia / Victor Purcell.

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ISBN:

9781139055833 (ebook)

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