A History of Modern Europe: From the Renaissance to the Present

by Merriman, John

• ISBN13: 9780393934335
• ISBN10: 0393934330
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-29
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Available in both one-volume and two-volume paperback editions, A History of Modern Europe presents a panoramic survey of modern Europe from the Renaissance to the present day. A single author lends a unified approach and consistent style throughout, with an emphasis on the connections of events and people over time. The Third Edition, like the two before it, is authoritative and up-to-date. New to the Third Edition is the theme of empire. From the imperial rivalries between France and Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, through the rise and fall of the Ottoman Turkish empire, and on into the imperial history of the twentieth century'”decolonization, the spread of the Soviet empire, and the imperial power of the United States'”the theme of empire helps students find commonalities among the events of European history.

Table of Contents

List of Maps

Preface Acknowledgements

Foundations

Medieval Legacies and Transforming Discoveries

The Renaissance

The Two Reformations

The Wars of Religion

Statemaking

The Rise of the Atlantic Economy: Spain and England

England and the Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century

The Age of Absolutism, 1650-1720

New Cultural and Political Horizon

The New Philosophy of Science

Enlightened Thought and the Republic of Letters

Eighteenth-Century Economic and Social Change

Eighteenth-Century Dynastic Rivalries and Politics 386

Revolutionary Europe, 1789-1850

The French Revolution

Napoleon and Europe

The Industrial Revolution

Liberal Challenges to Restoration Europe

The Revolutions of 1848

The Age of Mass Politics

The Era of National Unification

The Dominant Powers in the Age of Liberalism: Parliamentary Britain, Tsarist Russia, and Republican France

Rapid Industrialization and Its Challenges, 1870-1914

Political and Cultural Responses to a Rapidly Changing World

The Age of Europe an Imperialism

Cataclysm

The Great War

Revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union

The Elusive Search for Stability in the 1920s

The Europe of Economic Depression and Dictatorship

World War II

Europe in The Post-War Era

Rebuilding Divided Europe

The Cold War and the End of European Empires

Transitions to Democracy and the Collapse of Communism

Global Challenges: "Fortress Europe," European Cooperation, and the Uncertainties of a New Age

Immigration to Europe

Further Readings

Credits

Index

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