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A short history of Europe : 1600-1815 : search for a reasonable world

A concise survey that introduces readers to the people, ideas, and conflicts in European history from the Thirty Years' War to the Napoleonic Era. The authors draw on gender studies, environmental history, anthropology and cultural history to frame the essential argument of the work.
Print Book, English, 2000
Sharpe, Armonk, NY, 2000
XI, 450 Seiten : Illustrationen
9780765603272, 9780765603289, 0765603276, 0765603284
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Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction: Sad Stories of the Death of Kings; Part 1 ca. 1600–1660; Chapter 2 The European World in 1600; Chapter 3 A Society of Localities; Chapter 4 The Mental Universe; Chapter 5 Politics or Religion? The Thirty Years’ War; Chapter 6 Who Should Rule in England?; Part 2 ca. 1660–1720; Chapter 7 Louis XIV and Absolute Monarchy; Chapter 8 The Arts in the Age of the Baroque; Chapter 9 Trade, War, and Monarchy in the Seventeenth Century; Chapter 10 Europe Overseas; Chapter 11 The Pursuit of Truth; Part 3 ca. 1730–1790; Chapter 12 Public Sphere and Private Lives; Chapter 13 Enlightenment: Reason, Nature, and Progress; Chapter 14 Enlightenment in National Context; Chapter 15 Enlightened Absolutism; Chapter 16 A Consumer Society; Part 4 ca. 1790–1815; Chapter 17 The Reform of France; Chapter 18 Turns of Fortune’s Wheel: France, 1789–1795; Chapter 19 Napoleon and the Export of the French Revolution;