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The Western Experience: Vol B, The Early Modern Era (aka Antiquities and the Middle Ages)
The Western Experience Vol B The Early Modern Era - aka Antiquities and the Middle Ages Author:Mortimer Chambers, Barbara Hanawalt, Theodore Rabb, Isser Woloch, Raymond Grew Contents: — Breakdown and renewal in an age of plague : — Population catastrophes ; Economic depression and recovery ; Popular unrest ; Challenges to the governments of Europe ; Fall of Byzantium and the Ottoman empire -- — Tradition and change in European culture, 1300-1500 : — New learning ; Art and artists in t... more »he Italian renaissance ; Culture of the North ; Scholastic philosophy and religious thought ; State of Christendoms --
Reformations in religion :
Piety and dissent ; Lutheran reformation ; Spread of Protestantism ; Catholic revival --
Economic expansion and a new politics :
Expansion at home ; Expansion overseas ; Centralization of political power ; Splintered states ; New statecraft --
War and crisis :
Rivalry and war in the age of Philip II ; From unbounded war to international crisis ; Military revolution ; Revolution in England ; Revolts in France and Spain ; Political change in an age of crisis --
Culture and society in the age of the scientific revolution :
Scientific advance from Copernicus to Newton ; Effects of the discoveries ; Arts and literature ; Social patterns and popular culture --
Emergence of the European state system :
Absolutism in France ; Other patterns of absolutism ; Alternatives to absolutism ; International system --
Wealth of nations :
Demographic and economic growth ; New shape of industry ; Innovation and tradition in agriculture ; Eighteenth-century empires --
Age of Enlightenment :
Enlightenment ; Eighteenth-century elite culture ; Popular culture --
French Revolution :
Reform and political crisis ; 1789, the French revolution ; Reconstruction of France ; Second revolution --
Age of Napoleon :
Robespierre to Bonaparte ; Napoleonic settlement in France ; Napoleonic hegemony in Europe ; Resistance to Napoleon --