The Seventeenth Century Europe 1598-1715

This book is a rich, lively, and provocative introduction to seventeenth century Europe. Editor Joseph Bergin and six major authors explore such major issues as economy, society, politics, war, international relations, science, and thought and culture ('The Age of Curiosity'). The book also examines Europe in the wider world.

Joseph Bergin is Professor of History at the University of Manchester

List of contributors

xi

Introduction: the uncertain prospect

1

(10)

Joseph Bergin

The economy

11

(39)

R. C. Nash

Population and the economy

13

(5)

Agriculture and agrarian society

18

(18)

Industry and trade

36

(12)

Conclusion

48

(2)

Society

50

(30)

Thomas Munck

Social rank and social mobility

52

(6)

Peasants, serfs and subservience

58

(4)

Urbanization and social change

62

(4)

Poverty, vagrancy and crime

66

(4)

Riots and social control

70

(5)

Alternative ideologies: the world turned upside down?

75

(3)

Conclusion

78

(2)

Politics

80

(32)

Anthony Upton

The political structure of Europe in 1600

80

(2)

The problem of the Reformation

82

(2)

The pressures of war: Richelieu and Olivares

84

(4)

Protest, rebellion, revolution: a mid-century crisis?

88

(2)

The English revolution, 1640--60

90

(4)

The search for political stability

94

(9)

Alternative roads

103

(9)

War and international relations

112

(33)

David Parrott

The Thirty Years War and European conflict to 1634

112

(5)

Early seventeenth-century warfare and the `military revolution'

117

(3)

Peace deferred

120

(5)

Malplaquet and military change in Europe after 1660

125

(2)

The wars of French expansion, 1667--97

127

(8)

The Spanish succession

135

(6)

Conclusion

141

(4)

The age of curiosity

145

(40)

Laurence W. B. Brockliss

The Augustinian landscape

145

(7)

Curiosity, observation and measurement

152

(8)

The disenchantment of nature

160

(7)

The sun-centred and infinite universe

167

(5)

The ascent of man

172

(8)

Towards the Enlightenment

180

(5)

Europe and the wider world

185

(32)

Anthony Pagden

Contexts

185

(3)

The meanings of `discovery'

188

(3)

Nature and its laws

191

(3)

Mare liberum?

194

(8)

Competing for empire

202

(2)

The rise of slavery

204

(5)

Religion and civilization

209

(6)

Conclusion

215

(2)

Conclusion: the ancient and the modern

217

(12)

Joseph Bergin

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