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Author Rosner, Lisa, author

Title A short history of Europe, 1600-1815 : search for a reasonable world / Lisa Rosner, John Theibault
Published London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015

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Contents Ch. 1. Introduction: Sad Stories of the Death of Kings -- pt. I. ca. 1600-1660. Ch. 2. The European World in 1600. Ch. 3. A Society of Localities. Ch. 4. The Mental Universe. Ch. 5. Politics or Religion? The Thirty Years' War. Ch. 6. Who Should Rule in England? -- pt. II. ca. 1660-1720. Ch. 7. Louis XIV and Absolute Monarchy. Ch. 8. The Arts in the Age of the Baroque. Ch. 9. Trade, War, and Monarchy in the Seventeenth Century. Ch. 10. Europe Overseas. Ch. 11. The Pursuit of Truth -- pt. III. ca. 1730-1790. Ch. 12. Public Sphere and Private Lives. Ch. 13. Enlightenment: Reason, Nature, and Progress. Ch. 14. Enlightenment in National Context. Ch. 15. Enlightened Absolution. Ch. 16. A Consumer Society -- pt. IV. ca. 1790-1815. Ch. 17. The Reform of France. Ch. 18. Turns of Fortune's Wheel: France, 1789-1795. Ch. 19. Napoleon and the Export of the French Revolution
Summary A concise survey of the people, ideas, and conflicts in European history from the Thirty Years' War to the Napoleonic Era, drawing on new work in gender studies, environmental history, anthropology and cultural history
Notes Originally published: M.E. Sharpe, 2000
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Text in English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 6, 2015)
Subject HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
SUBJECT Europe -- History -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045698
Europe -- History -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045702
Europe -- History -- 1789-1815. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045703
Subject Europe
Europa
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Theibault, John, 1957- author.
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