The short Oxford history of Europe.
Subtitle: Europe, 1688-1815
By: edited by T.C.W. Blanning.
Contributors: Blanning, T. C. W.
Series: Short Oxford history of Europe.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Europe -- History -- 18th century; Europe -- Civilization -- 18th century
Other titles: Eighteenth century; 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-259) index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: X Politics and the state in eighteenth-century Europe; title: Julian Swann; title: European states: Monarchies, republics, and despotisms; title: High politics; title: Enlightened absolutism; title: Corporate politics; title: Representative politics; title: Politics and the people; title: Radicals and republicans; title: Conclusion; title: 2 Orders and classes: eighteenth-century society; title: under pressure; title: Christof Dipper; title: The stages of demographic expansion; title: The dissolution of the society of orders; title: estate-owners; title: tenants; title: peasants; title: rural labours; title: industrial workers; title: high finance; title: lews; title: Poverty and poor relief; title: Social forces making for continuity; title: the nobility; title: townspeople; title: The image of society; title: 3 The European economy in the eighteenth century; title: Sheilagh Ogilvie; title: Agriculture; title: Industry; title: Trade; title: 4 Religion and culture; title: Derek Beales; title: Religion, to mid-century; title: Culture before the middle of the century; title: Religion, enlightenment, and culture from mid-century to 1789; title: Epilogue: the French Revolution; title: 5 International rivalry and warfare; title: John A. Lynn; title: The old regime, 1700-1789; title: the international system; title: the military system; title: the practice of war; title: the war of the Spanish Succession; title: the war of the Austrian Succession; title: the Seven Years War; title: Revolution and Empire, 1789-1815; title: revolutionary change and international continuity, 1789-1802; title: war and partition, 1792-1795; title: Napoleon's military revolution, 1802-1812; title: the apogee of Napoleon, 1805-1807; title: the formation of the Concert of Europe; title: 6 Europe and the rest of the world; title: P. J. Marshall; title: Europeans outside Europe; title: empires in the Americas; title: the crisis of the American empires; title: Asian trade; title: new empires in Asia; title: European perspectives; title: the benefits of expansion; title: envisaging new worlds; title: Conclusion: the French Revolution and beyond; title: T C. W. Blanning; title: Further Reading; title: Chronology; title: Maps; title: Europe in 1715; title: Europe in 1789; title: Europe in 1815; title: Europeans in Asia in the eighteenth century; title: Partitions of Poland; title: The Americas in the eighteenth century; title: Index.