The Seventeenth Century Europe 1598-1715

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ISBN: 9780198731672 | 0198731671
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Copyright: 1/18/2001

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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.

List of contributors

Introduction: the uncertain prospect

(10)

Joseph Bergin

The economy

(39)

R. C. Nash

Population and the economy

(5)

Agriculture and agrarian society

(18)

Industry and trade

(12)

Conclusion

(2)

Society

(30)

Thomas Munck

Social rank and social mobility

(6)

Peasants, serfs and subservience

(4)

Urbanization and social change

(4)

Poverty, vagrancy and crime

(4)

Riots and social control

(5)

Alternative ideologies: the world turned upside down?

(3)

Conclusion

(2)

Politics

(32)

Anthony Upton

The political structure of Europe in 1600

(2)

The problem of the Reformation

(2)

The pressures of war: Richelieu and Olivares

(4)

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

(2)

The English revolution, 1640--60

(4)

The search for political stability

(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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