Author: J. O. Lindsay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1957-01-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780521045452
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume surveys the political, military and diplomatic history of a period of changing alliances and limited and gentlemanly but frequent wars. It gives particular weight to the emergence of Prussia and Russia as European Powers and to the rivalry of France and England in America, in India and on the high seas. The economic background to these national fortunes is of increasing international trade, technological progress and colonialisation. Socially, European society slowly evolved from the domination of the aristocracy to that of urban populations and bourgeois administrators. Intellectually, the culture of Europe took on what are recognized as specifically eighteenth-century forms and ideals. From the point of view of world history this period saw the confirmation of European pre-eminence and dominion.
Author: Elliot H. Goodwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1965-01-01
Total Pages: 776
ISBN-13: 9780521045469
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume of the The New Cambridge Modern History looks specifically at the American and French Revolutions in the eighteenth century.
Author: J. P. Cooper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1970-11-02
Total Pages: 853
ISBN-13: 9780521076180
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →War, plague, rebellions, and religious and dynastic conflicts changed the distribution of power between states, as well as their structure, when many of the social, intellectual and political foundations of Europe during the Ancien Régime were laid. The mass of the people suffered from direct and indirect effects of war, but both limited and absolutist governments and a variety of social groups strengthened themselves. In this volume, contributors discuss the shift of power and command of oceanic routes to north-western Europe, the failure of Habsburg power in Spain and Germany and the rebuilding of their power in Bohemia. The internal costs of France's victory over Spain and her international position in the 1650s are assessed. Greater immediate gains were won by smaller powers, the Dutch and the Swedes and, despite the Civil War, England. Particular attention is paid to attitudes towards absolutism and the development of scientific ideas.
Author: George Richard Potter
Publisher:
Published: 1957
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780511469053
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →V.1 The renaissance 1493-1520 -- V.2 The reformation 1520-1559 -- V.5 The ascendancy of France 1648-88. -- V.7 The old regime 1713-63. -- V.8 The American and French révolution 1763-93 -- V.9 war and peace in an age of Upheaval 1793-1830. -- V.10 The zenith of European power 1830-70. -- V.11 Material progress and world-wide problems 1870-1898. -- V.12 The era of violence 1898-1945.
Author: C. W. Crawley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 778
ISBN-13: 9780521045476
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume of The New Cambridge Modern History examines the period 1793-1830.
Author: Elliot H. Goodwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1976-09-23
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780521291088
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume of the The New Cambridge Modern History looks specifically at the American and French Revolutions in the eighteenth century.
Author: George Richard Potter
Publisher:
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 780
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →V.1 The renaissance 1493-1520 -- V.2 The reformation 1520-1559 -- V.5 The ascendancy of France 1648-88. -- V.7 The old regime 1713-63. -- V.8 The American and French révolution 1763-93 -- V.9 war and peace in an age of Upheaval 1793-1830. -- V.10 The zenith of European power 1830-70. -- V.11 Material progress and world-wide problems 1870-1898. -- V.12 The era of violence 1898-1945.