Early Modern Europe, 1450–1789The second edition of this best-selling textbook is thoroughly updated to include expanded coverage of the late eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, and incorporates recent advances in gender history, global connections and cultural analysis. It features summaries, timelines, maps, illustrations and discussion questions to support the student. Enhanced online content and sections on sources and methodology give students the tools they need to study early modern European history. Leading historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks skilfully balances breadth and depth of coverage to create a strong narrative, paying particular attention to the global context of European developments. She integrates discussion of gender, class, regional and ethnic differences across the entirety of Europe and its overseas colonies as well as the economic, political, religious and cultural history of the period. |
Contents
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Travel beyond Europe | 21 |
Cultural and intellectual life | 35 |
Questions | 48 |
Politics and power 14501600 | 86 |
Cultural and intellectual life 14501600 | 126 |
Religious reform and consolidation 14501600 | 162 |
The radical Reformation | 174 |
Late medieval agriculture | 206 |
Neoserfdom and slavery in eastern Europe | 213 |
Banking and moneylending | 220 |
Poverty and crime | 228 |
Questions | 234 |
Indian Ocean connections | 241 |
Early voyagers after Columbus | 249 |
slavers and sugar growers | 258 |
Religious wars | 180 |
The Catholic Reformation | 186 |
Later religious wars | 192 |
Further reading | 198 |
Global connections and the Columbian exchange | 267 |
Part summary 14501600 | 273 |
Politics and power 16001789 | 314 |
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