The European world
Subtitle: a history
By: [by] Jerome Blum, Rondo Cameron [and] Thomas G. Barnes.
Contributors: Cameron, Rondo E., joint author.; Barnes, Thomas Garden, joint author.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1120
Subjects: Europe -- History; Europe -- Civilization
Notes: Bibliography: p. 1025-1082.
Published also, without general title, in two separate vols. under the following titles: The emergence of the European world. The European world since 1815.
Table of contents: title: Part one : The emergence of the European world.; title: 1. The heritage of the European world. The legacy of ancient civilization; title: The birth of Europe; title: Medieval civilization in its prime; title: The crisis of the medieval order; title: 2. Economic change and the expansion of Europe.; title: The Great Depression of the Later Middle Ages; title: The rise of modern capitalism; title: The great discoveries; title: Overseas expansion and the feedback to Europe; title: 3. The Renaissance.; title: The Renaissance in Italy; title: Italian humanism; title: Italian art; title: The northern Renaissance; title: Renaissance science; title: 4. The politics of the Renaissance.; title: Political theory; title: Italian politics; title: The rise of the nation-states; title: The Italian wars; title: 5. Reformations, Protestant and Catholic.; title: The eleventh hour of the Medieval church; title: Luther and the German Reformation; title: The Swiss Reformation and the rise of Calvinism; title: The Reformation in England; title: The Catholic Reformation; title: 6. The Age of Reformation.; title: The empire of Charles V; title: The wars of religion in France; title: The Spanish predominance; title: Elizabethan England; title: 7. The borderlands of Europe.; title: The creation of the Russian state; title: Poland to 1660; title: Scandinavia to 1660; title: The Ottoman Empire to 1656; title: 8. Social, intellectual, and cultural dynamism, 1500-1600.; title: Society and social dynamics; title: The Scientific Revolution; title: Political theory; title: The Baroque; title: 9. The age of crisis, 1600-1660 : absolutist solution.; title: The Thirty Years' War; title: The decline of Spain, 1598-1665; title: The reconstruction of France; title: The emergence of absolutism; title: 10. Absolutism versus oligarchy : England and the Dutch Republic.; title: England's constitutional crisis, 1603-1640; title: "Another Protestant Republic"; title: The rise of the Dutch Republic; title: The flowering of Dutch culture; title: Part two : Absolutism, enlightenment, and revolution (1660-1815).; title: 11. The pinnacle of French absolutism. "I am the State"; title: Absolutism in economics and religion; title: French predominance; title: Cultural glory of France; title: 12. Absolutism in Austria, Spain, and Prussia.; title: The rise of the Austrian Hapsburgs; title: The rise of the Spanish Bourbons; title: The rise of Hohenzollern Prussia; title: Frederick the Great of Prussia; title: 13. Absolutism and oligarchy in the East.; title: Russia becomes a great power; title: The decline and disappearance of Poland; title: Scandinavia; title: The Ottoman Empire, 1656-1792; title: 14. Constitutionalism and oligarchy in the West.; title: The Dutch oligarchy, 1660-1766; title: Triumph of the English oligarchy, 1660-1689; title: The Augustan age of English oligarchy, 1689-1760; title: Dutch and British oligarchy beset, 1760-1790; title: 15. Wealth, war, and empire.; title: Power and plenty : the policies of economic nationalism; title: Europe overseas : colonies and commerce; title: Dynastic and imperial statecraft, 1700-1763; title: The American Revolution, 1763-1783; title: 16. The age of science.; title: The scientific community of intellect; title: The physical world; title: The psychic world; title: The social world; title: 17. The Enlightenment.; title: The circles of Enlightenment; title: The philosophies; title: The encyclopedists and the progress of science; title: Counter-Enlightenment; title: 18. The crisis of absolutism.; title: Enlightened despotism; title: The failure to renovate France; title: France on the eve of revolution; title: 19. The French Revolution.; title: The coming of the Revolution, 1788-1791; title: The constitutional monarchy, 1791-1792; title: The republic of virtue, 1792-1794; title: Reaction and irresolution, 1794-1799; title: Impact of the French Revolution; title: 20. The Napoleonic era.; title: Napoleon Bonaparte; title: The domestic reformer; title: The empire builder; title: The Napoleonic legacy; title: Part three : The zenith of the European world (1815-1918).; title: Introduction : Social forces and social change; title: 21. Romanticism and reaction.; title: The Vienna Settlement and the concert of Europe; title: Romanticism in literature and the arts; title: Romanticism in philosophy, politics, and religion; title: Restoration politics; title: 22. The rising tide of revolution.; title: Revolutionary currents : liberalism and nationalism; title: Revolution and self-government in the Americas; title: Romantic revolution, 1820-1829; title: The revolutions of 1830-1834; title: Parliamentary reform in Great Britain; title: 23. The revolution in economic life.; title: The rise of modern industry; title: Early industrialism in Europe and America; title: Social aspects of early industrialism; title: Economic liberalism, laissez faire, and free trade; title: 24. Revolution at floodtide.; title: Contrasting liberalisms in the West; title: The growth of social protest; title: The revolution of 1848 in France; title: Other revolutionary movements; title: 25. The realist reaction.; title: Ebb tide of revolution, 1848-1851; title: Realism in literature and the arts; title: The progress of science; title: The warfare of science with theology; title: Materialism and positivism; title: 26. The politics of power, 1852-1871.; title: Napoleon III and the Second French Empire; title: The Risorgimento and Italian unity; title: Foundations of German unity; title: The clash of power in North America; title: The watershed of 1867-1871; title: 27. The spread of modern industry.; title: Technological bases of the new industrialism; title: Business organization and the world market system; title: National economic styles; title: Organized labor and the revival of socialism; title: 28. Democratic reform and social strife, 1871-1914.; title: The triumph of democracy in Britain; title: The Third French Republic; title: The Second German Reich; title: The lesser states of Western Europe; title: 29. Three decaying empires.; title: Russia; title: Austria : the multinational empire; title: The Ottoman Empire; title: 30. The Indian summer of European culture.; title: Fin-de-Siècle literature and art; title: Positivism and its critics; title: The new revolution in science; title: European society at the end of its golden age; title: 31. The revival of Western imperialism.; title: The Second British Empire; title: The opening of Asia; title: The partition of Africa; title: Interpretations and perspectives; title: 32. Diplomacy, militarism, and war.; title: The diplomatic shuffle, 1871-1914; title: From the Eastern question to the Balkan wars; title: The First World War; title: Part four : The twentieth century : from Western civilization to world civilization.; title: 33. Disintegration and collapse.; title: The Russian Revolution, 1917-1921; title: The Peace of Paris and its aftermath; title: Economic disintegration and collapse; title: 34. Liberal attempts at reconstruction.; title: The League of Nations and collective security; title: The Weimar Republic in Germany; title: The democracies of Western Europe; title: The United States : new era and New Deal; title: 35. Authoritarian attempts at reconstruction.; title: Communism in Russia, 1921-1938; title: Fascism in Italy, 1922-1938; title: Nazism in Germany, 1933-1938; title: Other authoritarian regimes; title: The common elements; title: 36. The Second World War.; title: The origins of totalitarian aggression; title: Blitzkrieg, 1939-1941; title: Pearl Harbor and the war in the Pacific; title: The grand alliance; title: 37. The aftermath of war.; title: Exhausted victors; title: Defeated enemies; title: The fate of Eastern Europe; title: The United Nations; title: Divided Allies; title: 38. The end of Western hegemony.; title: New nationalisms; title: The Chinese revolutions; title: The emergence of independent Africa; title: Latin America in ferment; title: 39. The struggle for a new world order.; title: Recovery and reintegration in Western Europe; title: The Atlantic Alliance; title: Communism after Stalin; title: Birth pangs of world civilization; title: 40. Tendencies of twentieth-century civilization.; title: Science, technology, and industry; title: Social trends; title: The arts in twentieth-century civilization; title: The European mind in the twentieth century; title: Epilogue : The emergence of world civilization