A history of modern Europe
Subtitle: from the Renaissance to the present
By: John Merriman
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1239
ISBN-13: 9780393934335
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Medieval legacies and transforming discoveries; title: The Renaissance; title: The two reformations; title: The wars of religion; 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: The new philosophy of science; title: Enlightened thought and the republic of letters; title: Eighteenth-century economic and social change; title: Eighteenth-century dynastic rivalries and politics; title: The French revolution; title: Napoleon and Europe; title: The industrial revolution; title: Liberal challenges to Restoration Europe; title: The revolutions of 1848; title: The era of national unification; title: The dominant powers in the age of liberalism : parliamentary Britain, Tsarist Russia, and Republican France; title: Rapid industrialization and its challenges, 1870-1914; title: Political and cultural responses to a rapidly changing world; title: The age of European imperialism; title: The Great War; title: Revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union; title: The elusive search for stability in the 1920s; title: The Europe of economic depression and dictatorship; title: World War II; title: Rebuilding divided Europe; title: The Cold War and the end of European empires; title: Transitions to democracy and the collapse of communism; title: Global challenges : "fortress Europe," European cooperation, and the uncertainties of a new age.