UID:
almafu_9961294698302883
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 546 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Second edition.
ISBN:
1-107-32699-0
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1-107-33675-9
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1-107-33343-1
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1-107-33509-4
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1-139-38119-9
Series Statement:
The Cambridge history of Europe
Content:
The second edition of this best-selling textbook is thoroughly updated to include expanded coverage of the late eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, and incorporates recent advances in gender history, global connections and cultural analysis. It features summaries, timelines, maps, illustrations and discussion questions to support the student. Enhanced online content and sections on sources and methodology give students the tools they need to study early modern European history. Leading historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks skilfully balances breadth and depth of coverage to create a strong narrative, paying particular attention to the global context of European developments. She integrates discussion of gender, class, regional and ethnic differences across the entirety of Europe and its overseas colonies as well as the economic, political, religious and cultural history of the period.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jul 2016).
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Contents; List of illustrations; List of maps; List of source boxes; List of methods and analysis boxes; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Structure of the book; Sources for early modern history; Chapter summary; Questions; Further reading; PART I; 1 Europe in the world of 1450; Travel beyond Europe; Individuals in society; Politics and power; Cultural and intellectual life; Religious institutions, ideas, and practices; Economics and technology; Chapter summary; Questions; Further reading; 2 Individuals in society, 1450-1600; The body; The life cycle: childhood and youth
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The life cycle: sexualityThe life cycle: marriage; The life cycle: widowhood and old age; The life cycle: death; Family, kin, and community networks; Chapter summary; Questions; Further reading; 3 Politics and power, 1450-1600; Military technology and organization; Standing armies and navies; Taxes, bureaucracies, and marital politics; The British Isles; France; Spain and Portugal; The Holy Roman Empire; The Ottoman Empire; Eastern and northern Europe; Italy; Power at the local level; Chapter summary; Questions; Further reading; 4 Cultural and intellectual life, 1450-1600
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Schools and educationPolitical theory; Humanism; Vernacular literature and drama; Music and art; Chapter summary; Questions; Further reading; 5 Religious reform and consolidation, 1450-1600; The early Reformation; The Reformation in England; The radical Reformation; Social change and the Reformation; Religious wars; Calvinism; The Catholic Reformation; Later religious wars; Chapter summary; Questions; Further reading; 6 Economics and technology, 1450-1600; Capitalism, economic theory, and population growth; Late medieval agriculture; Rural developments in western Europe
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Neo-serfdom and slavery in eastern EuropeMining and metallurgy; Cloth and commerce; Banking and money-lending; Urban life; Poverty and crime; Chapter summary; Questions; Further reading; 7 Europe in the world, 1450-1600; Indian Ocean connections; Chinese and Portuguese voyages; Columbus's background and voyages; Early voyagers after Columbus; Europeans in Asia: merchants and missionaries; Europeans in Africa: slavers and sugar growers; Europeans in the Americas: conquerors and miners; Global connections and the Columbian exchange; Chapter summary; Part summary, 1450-1600; Questions
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Further readingPART I I; 8 Individuals in society, 1600-1789; The social body: orders and classes; The writing body: letters and diaries; The inner body: emotions and passions; The studied body: anatomy and medical theory; The treated body: medicine and public health; The reproducing body: childbirth and contraception; The deviant body: sex crimes and scandals; Chapter summary; Questions; Further reading; 9 Politics and power, 1600-1789; Absolutism in theory and practice; Warfare and alliances; France; Spain and Portugal; The British Isles; The Dutch Republic; The Ottoman Empire
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Hapsburg lands
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-03106-0
Language:
English
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