A history of modern Europe
Subtitle: from the Renaissance to the present
By: John Merriman.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1515
Subjects: Europe -- History -- 1492-
Description: Why a new history of modern Europe? The collapse of communism in 1989-1990 and the break-up of the Soviet have redrawn the map of central and eastern europe. A reconfigured Europe calls for a new history. This survey of modern European history explores the roots of the economic and political problems that continue to beset Western and Eastern Europe. For example, it shows how the simmering ethnic tensions that bursts into bloody civil war in Bosnia after the desintegration of Yugoslavia echoed the quarrels that eroded that stately Habsburg monarchy a century earlier.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 1411-1432) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one : Foundations.; title: Medieval legacies and transforming discoveries; title: The Renaissance; title: The two Reformations; title: The wars of religion; title: Part two : Statemaking.; title: The rise of the Atlantic economy : Spain and England; title: England and the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century; title: The Age of Absolutism, 1650-1720; title: Part three : New cultural and political horizons.; title: The new philosophy of science; title: Eighteenth-century economic and social change; title: Enlightened thought and the Republic of Letters; title: Eighteenth-century dynastic rivalries and politics; title: Part four : Revolutionary Europe.; title: The French Revolution; title: Napoleon and Europe; title: Challenges to Restoration Europe; title: The middle classes in the Age of Liberalism; title: The Industrial Revolution, 1800-1850; title: The revolutions of 1848; title: Part five : The age of mass politics.; title: The era of national unification; title: The dominant powers in the Age of Liberalism : Britain, France, and Russia; title: Rapid industrialization and its challenges, 1870-1914; title: Mass politics and nationalism; title: The age of European imperialism; title: The origins of the Great War; title: Part six : Cataclysm.; title: The Great War; title: Revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union; title: The elusive search for stability in the 1920s; title: The Europe of depression and dictatorship; title: World War II; title: Part seven : Europe in the post-war era.; title: Rebuilding divided Europe; title: The emergence of contemporary Europe and the collapse of communism; title: Further readings