[Gutenberg 6417] • A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Hayes, Carlton J.H. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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PREFACE NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY The New National Monarchies The Old Holy Roman Empire The City-States Northern and Eastern Europe in the year 1500

PART II PART III

INTRODUCTION

ADDITIONAL READING

PART I CHAPTER I

1. THE NEW NATIONAL MONARCHIES

ENGLAND FRANCE SPAIN AND PORTUGAL 2. THE OLD HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE 3. THE CITY-STATES 4. NORTHERN AND EASTERN EUROPE IN THE YEAR 1500 ADDITIONAL READINGS

CHAPTER II

AGRICULTURE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

TOWNS ON THE EVE OF THE COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION TRADE PRIOR TO THE COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION THE AGE OF EXPLORATION ESTABLISHMENT OF COLONIAL EMPIRES EFFECTS OF THE COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION ADDITIONAL READING

CHAPTER III

THE EMPEROR CHARLES V

PHILIP II AND THE PREDOMINANCE OF SPAIN ADDITIONAL READING

CHAPTER IV

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AT THE OPENING OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

THE PROTESTANT REVOLT LUTHERANISM CALVINISM ANGLICANISM THE CATHOLIC REFORMATION SUMMARY OF THE RELIGIOUS REVOLUTION IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY ADDITIONAL READING

CHAPTER V

THE INVENTION OF PRINTING

HUMANISM ART IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY NATIONAL LITERATURE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY BEGINNINGS OF MODERN NATURAL SCIENCE ADDITIONAL READING

PART II CHAPTER VI

GROWTH OF ABSOLUTISM IN FRANCE: HENRY IV, RICHELIEU, AND MAZARIN

STRUGGLE BETWEEN BOURBONS AND HABSBURGS THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR ADDITIONAL READING

CHAPTER VII

THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV

EXTENSION OF FRENCH FRONTIERS THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION ADDITIONAL READING

CHAPTER VIII

CONFLICTING POLITICAL TENDENCIES IN ENGLAND: ABSOLUTISM VERSUS PARLIAMENTARIANISM

THE PURITAN REVOLUTION THE RESTORATION: THE REIGN OF CHARLES II THE "GLORIOUS REVOLUTION" AND THE FINAL ESTABLISHMENT OF PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT IN GREAT BRITAIN ADDITIONAL READING

CHAPTER IX

FRENCH AND ENGLISH COLONIES IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

PRELIMINARY ENCOUNTERS, 1689-1748 THE TRIUMPH OF GREAT BRITAIN: THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR, 1756-1763 ADDITIONAL READING

CHAPTER X

THE BRITISH COLONIAL SYSTEM IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

THE WAR OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, 1775-1783 THE REFORMATION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE ADDITIONAL READING

CHAPTER XI

THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE IN DECLINE

THE HABSBURG DOMINIONS THE RISE OF PRUSSIA. THE HOHENZOLLERNS THE MINOR GERMAN STATES THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN HOHENZOLLERNS AND HABSBURGS ADDITIONAL READING

CHAPTER XII

RUSSIA IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

PETER THE GREAT SWEDEN AND THE CAREER OF CHARLES XII CATHERINE THE GREAT: THE DEFEAT OF TURKEY AND THE DISMEMBERMENT OF POLAND ADDITIONAL READING

PART III CHAPTER XIII

AGRICULTURE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY THE PRIVILEGED CLASSES RELIGIOUS AND ECCLESIASTICAL CONDITIONS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SCIENTIFIC AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ADDITIONAL READING

CHAPTER XIV

THE BRITISH MONARCHY

THE ENLIGHTENED DESPOTS THE FRENCH MONARCHY ADDITIONAL READING

CHAPTER XV

THE END OF ABSOLUTISM IN FRANCE, 1789

THE END OF THE OLD RÉGIME: THE NATIONAL CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY, 1789-1791 THE LIMITED MONARCHY IN OPERATION: THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY (1791-1792) AND THE OUTBREAK OF FOREIGN WAR THE DIRECTORY (1795-1799) AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE REPUBLIC INTO A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION (1789-1799) ADDITIONAL READING

CHAPTER XVI

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC UNDER THE CONSULATE, 1799-1804

THE FRENCH EMPIRE AND ITS TERRITORIAL EXPANSION DESTRUCTION OF THE FRENCH EMPIRE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ERA OF NAPOLEON ADDITIONAL READING

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