Contents

List of Illustration

List of Tables

Maps

1Europe in the era of Louis XIV

2Europe in the eighteenth century

3Europe in 1809

4Europe in 1815

5The Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy in the eighteenth century

Preface

Introduction

Part I Life and Death

1 Communications

2 People

3 Trade and Manufacturing

4 Agriculture and the Rural World

Part II Power

5 Rulers and Their Elites

6 Reform and Revolution

Part III Religion and Culture

7 Religion and the Churches

8 Court and Country

9 Palaces and Gardens

10 The Culture of Feeling and the Culture of Reason

Part IV War and Peace

11 From the Peace of Westphalia to the Peace of Nystad

12 From the Peace of Nystad to the French Revolutionary Wars

13 The Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon

Conclusion

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