636 Pages
by
Routledge
636 Pages
by
Routledge
636 Pages
by
Routledge
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As before, the second edition of this widely-used survey is in two main parts. The first analyses the major themes of seventeenth-century European history on a continent-wide basis. The second part moves on to outline political, diplomatic and military events in the various states and nations of the time. For the second edition all the chapters have been rewritten to take account of recent... Read more
List of rulers and royal families. List of maps. Preface and acknowledgements. Note on dates. Introduction. 1. Sources. 2. People and states. 3. The economy. 4. Society. 5. Religion and the chruches. 6. Science. 7. Education and the arts. 8. Political ideas. 9. Government. 10. Rebellion. 11. War. 12. France, 1598-1660. 13. The Thirty Years War. 14. Germany and the Habsburg empire, 1648-1713. 15. Spain. 16. Scandinavia and Poland. 17. Russia and the Ottoman empire. 18. Britain and The Netherlands. 19. Louis XIV's France and the European wars. Chronological list of political events. Bibliography. Rulers and royal families. Maps. Index.
Biography
Donald Pennington
