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Author Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E., 1952- author

Title Early modern Europe, 1450-1789 / Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Edition Second edition
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 546 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Cambridge history of Europe ; v. 2
Cambridge history of Europe ; v. 2.
Contents 1. Europe in the world of 1450 -- 2. Individuals in society, 1450-1600 -- 3. Politics and power, 1450-1600 -- 4. Cultural and intellectual life, 1450-1600 -- 5. Religious reform and consolidation, 1450-1600 -- 6. Economics and technology, 1450-1600 -- 7. Europe in the world, 1450-1600 -- 8. Individuals in society, 1600-1789 -- 9. Politics and power, 1600-1789 -- 10. Cultural and intellectual life, 1600-1789 -- 11. Religious consolidation and renewal, 1600-1789 -- 12. Economics and technology, 1600-1789, 13. Europe in the world, 1600-1789
Summary "The title of this book, and perhaps also of the course for which you are reading it, is Early Modern Europe. The dates in the title inform you about the chronological span covered (1450-1789), but they do not explain the designation "early modern." That term was developed by historians seeking to refine an intellectual model first devised during this very period, when scholars divided European history into three parts: ancient (to the end of the Roman Empire in the west in the fifth century), medieval (from the fifth century to the fifteenth), and modern (from the fifteenth century to their own time). In this model, the break between the Middle Ages and the modern era was marked by the first voyage of Columbus (1492) and the beginning of the Protestant Reformation (1517), though some scholars, especially those who focused on Italy, set the break somewhat earlier with the Italian Renaissance. This three-part periodization became extremely influential, and as the modern era grew longer and longer, historians began to divide it into "early modern"--The Renaissance or Columbus to the French Revolution in 1789 - and what we might call "truly modern"--the French Revolution to whenever they happened to be writing"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Includes index
Originally published in 2006
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT Europa gnd
Subject HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
History.
Politics and government
Civilization
Historia.
SUBJECT Europe -- History -- 1492-1648. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045693
Europe -- History -- 1648-1789. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045700
Europe -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045637
Europe -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045687
Europe -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045733
Subject Europe
Europa
Europa (geografie)
Europe, Western -- History -- 1517-1648.
Europe, Western -- History -- 1492-1517.
Europe -- History -- 1492-1648.
Europe -- History -- 1648-1715.
Europe -- History -- 18th century.
Europe -- Civilization.
Europe -- 1492-1648.
Europe -- 1648-1789.
Europe -- Civilisation.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781107336759
1107336759
9781139381192
1139381199
9781299408920
1299408923