Europe in Crisis : 1598-1648

by Parker, Geoffrey

• ISBN13: 9780631220282
• ISBN10: 0631220283
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-21
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

In the new edition of this classic book, Geoffrey Parker draws on material from all over Europe to provide an authoritative and exciting account of the eventful first half of the seventeenth century.

Author Biography

Geoffrey Parker is Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History at Ohio State University. He previously taught at Yale University (1993-96) and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was department chair from 1989 to 1991. He also taught at the Universities of Cambridge and St Andrews in Britain and at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in Canada. His many books include The Military Revolution. Military innovation and the rise of the West, 1500-1800 (1988), the winner of two book prizes, Philip II (1978), now in its third edition, The Grand Strategy of Philip II (1998) The Dutch Revolt (revised edition, 1984), and The Thirty Years' War (revised edition, 1997).

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Maps

List of Tables

Preface to the Second Edition

Note on Conventions

Prelude: Prague Spring

European Society and the Economy:Climate and Crisis

Rich and Poor

Supply and Demand

An Economy on the Edge of Crisis

European Society and the State:The Theory of Absolutism

Religious Absolutism

Political Absolutism

The State and War

The Times of Troubles in the East, 1593-1618:The Austrian Habsburgs and the Turks

The Vasas and their Enemies

The Rape of Russia

Armed Neutrality in the West, 1598-1618:The Recovery of France

The Netherlands Divided

Spain under Philip III

The Apogee of Habsburg Imperialism, 1618-1629:The Bohemian Revolt

Years of Victory

Rise and Fall of a Coalition

France and the Cold War for Italy

The Defeat of the Habsburgs, 1629-1635:Sweden and Poland

Gustavus Adolphus and Wallenstein

The Cardinal-Infante

War and Revolution, 1635-1648:On the Edge of Disaster

The Crisis of the Spanish Monarchy

France Resurgent

The End of the Eighty Years' War

The End of the Thirty Years' War

The Culture of Post-Renaissance Europe:War and Culture

The Culture of Everyday Life

Elite Culture

Notes

Further Reading

Index

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