A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
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Chapters (111)
- PREFACE
- NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I. THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY The New National Monarchies The Old Holy Roman Empire The City-States Northern and Eastern Europe in the year 1500
- PART II
- PART III
- INTRODUCTION
- ADDITIONAL READING
- PART I
- CHAPTER I
- 1. THE NEW NATIONAL MONARCHIES
- ENGLAND
- FRANCE
- SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
- 2. THE OLD HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE
- 3. THE CITY-STATES
- 4. NORTHERN AND EASTERN EUROPE IN THE YEAR 1500
- ADDITIONAL READINGS
- CHAPTER II
- AGRICULTURE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
- TOWNS ON THE EVE OF THE COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION
- TRADE PRIOR TO THE COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION
- THE AGE OF EXPLORATION
- ESTABLISHMENT OF COLONIAL EMPIRES
- EFFECTS OF THE COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION
- ADDITIONAL READING
- CHAPTER III
- THE EMPEROR CHARLES V
- PHILIP II AND THE PREDOMINANCE OF SPAIN
- ADDITIONAL READING
- CHAPTER IV
- THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AT THE OPENING OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
- THE PROTESTANT REVOLT
- LUTHERANISM
- CALVINISM
- ANGLICANISM
- THE CATHOLIC REFORMATION
- SUMMARY OF THE RELIGIOUS REVOLUTION IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
- ADDITIONAL READING
- CHAPTER V
- THE INVENTION OF PRINTING
- HUMANISM
- ART IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
- NATIONAL LITERATURE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY
- BEGINNINGS OF MODERN NATURAL SCIENCE
- ADDITIONAL READING
- PART II
- CHAPTER VI
- GROWTH OF ABSOLUTISM IN FRANCE: HENRY IV, RICHELIEU, AND MAZARIN
- STRUGGLE BETWEEN BOURBONS AND HABSBURGS THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR
- ADDITIONAL READING
- CHAPTER VII
- THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV
- EXTENSION OF FRENCH FRONTIERS
- THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION
- ADDITIONAL READING
- CHAPTER VIII
- CONFLICTING POLITICAL TENDENCIES IN ENGLAND: ABSOLUTISM VERSUS PARLIAMENTARIANISM
- THE PURITAN REVOLUTION
- THE RESTORATION: THE REIGN OF CHARLES II
- THE "GLORIOUS REVOLUTION" AND THE FINAL ESTABLISHMENT OF PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT IN GREAT BRITAIN
- ADDITIONAL READING
- CHAPTER IX
- FRENCH AND ENGLISH COLONIES IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- PRELIMINARY ENCOUNTERS, 1689-1748
- THE TRIUMPH OF GREAT BRITAIN: THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR, 1756-1763
- ADDITIONAL READING
- CHAPTER X
- THE BRITISH COLONIAL SYSTEM IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- THE WAR OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, 1775-1783
- THE REFORMATION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
- ADDITIONAL READING
- CHAPTER XI
- THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE IN DECLINE
- THE HABSBURG DOMINIONS
- THE RISE OF PRUSSIA. THE HOHENZOLLERNS
- THE MINOR GERMAN STATES
- THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN HOHENZOLLERNS AND HABSBURGS
- ADDITIONAL READING
- CHAPTER XII
- RUSSIA IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- PETER THE GREAT
- SWEDEN AND THE CAREER OF CHARLES XII
- CATHERINE THE GREAT: THE DEFEAT OF TURKEY AND THE DISMEMBERMENT OF POLAND
- ADDITIONAL READING
- PART III
- CHAPTER XIII
- AGRICULTURE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- THE PRIVILEGED CLASSES
- RELIGIOUS AND ECCLESIASTICAL CONDITIONS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- SCIENTIFIC AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- ADDITIONAL READING
- CHAPTER XIV
- THE BRITISH MONARCHY
- THE ENLIGHTENED DESPOTS
- THE FRENCH MONARCHY
- ADDITIONAL READING
- CHAPTER XV
- THE END OF ABSOLUTISM IN FRANCE, 1789
- THE END OF THE OLD RÉGIME: THE NATIONAL CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY, 1789-1791
- THE LIMITED MONARCHY IN OPERATION: THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY (1791-1792) AND THE OUTBREAK OF FOREIGN WAR
- THE DIRECTORY (1795-1799) AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE REPUBLIC INTO A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP
- SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION (1789-1799)
- ADDITIONAL READING
- CHAPTER XVI
- THE FRENCH REPUBLIC UNDER THE CONSULATE, 1799-1804
- THE FRENCH EMPIRE AND ITS TERRITORIAL EXPANSION
- DESTRUCTION OF THE FRENCH EMPIRE
- SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ERA OF NAPOLEON
- ADDITIONAL READING
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