ABSTRACT

This reissue of a classic textbook has been revised and updated with a new introduction by the author. Geoffrey Treasure provides a thoroughly comprehensive account of the European experience at a time when so much of what is today identified as 'modern' began to take shape.

Discussing key issues of the period, The Making of Modern Europe, 1647–1980 examines:

  • the evolution of the developing society
  • detailed studies of the people, their environment, attitudes and beliefs
  • economic aspects
  • the growth of the states
  • politics, war and diplomacy
  • religion, intellectualism and science.

This work provides an excellent grounding for the study of seventeenth and eighteenth-century European history.

chapter 1|50 pages

THE EUROPEAN WORLD

chapter 2|23 pages

EARLY CAPITALISM

chapter 3|28 pages

GOD AND MAN

chapter 4|40 pages

ADVENTURES OF MIND AND IMAGINATION

chapter 5|19 pages

QUESTIONS OF AUTHORITY

chapter 6|32 pages

DIPLOMACY AND WAR

chapter 7|57 pages

LOUIS XIV's FRANCE

chapter 8|30 pages

LOUIS XV

chapter 9|36 pages

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL

chapter 10|44 pages

10GERMAN EMPIRE, AUSTRIAN STATE

chapter 11|30 pages

11THE RISE OF PRUSSIA

chapter 12|26 pages

12HOLLAND

chapter 13|28 pages

13SCANDINAVIA

chapter 14|19 pages

14POLAND

chapter 15|25 pages

RUSSIA

chapter 16|18 pages

16RUSSIA AFTER PETER

chapter 17|17 pages

17THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE