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W. W. Norton & Company : College Books

A History of Modern Europe 2e

Contents

  • Part One: Foundations
  • Chapter 1. Medieval Legacies and Transforming Discoveries
  • Chapter 2. The Renaissance
  • Chapter 3. The Two Reformations
  • Chapter 4. The Wars of Religion
  • Part Two: Statemaking
  • Chapter 5. The Rise of the Atlantic Economy: Spain and England
  • Chapter 6. England and the Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century
  • Chapter 7. The Age of Absolutism, 1650–1720
  • Part Three: New Cultural and Political Horizons
  • Chapter 8. The New Philosophy of Science
  • Chapter 9. Enlightened Thought and the Republic of Letters
  • Chapter 10. Eighteenth-Century Economic and Social Change
  • Chapter 11. Eighteenth-Century Dynastic Rivalries and Politics
  • START OF VOLUME TWO
  • Part Four: Revolutionary Europe
  • Chapter 12. The French Revolution
  • Chapter 13. Napoleon and Europe
  • END OF VOLUME ONE
  • Chapter 14. The Industrial Revolution, 1800–1850
  • Chapter 15. Challenges to Restoration Europe: The Middle Classes in the Age of Liberalism
  • Chapter 16. The Revolutions of 1848
  • Part Five: The Age of Mass Politics
  • Chapter 17. The Era of National Unification
  • Chapter 18. The Dominant Powers in the Age of Liberalism: Britain, France, and Russia
  • Chapter 19. Rapid Industrialization and Its Challenges, 1870–1914
  • Chapter 20. Political and Cultural Responses to a Rapidly Changing World
  • Chapter 21. The Age of European Imperialism
  • Part Six: Cataclysm
  • Chapter 22. The Great War
  • Chapter 23. Revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union
  • Chapter 24. The Elusive Search for Stability in the 1920s
  • Chapter 25. The Europe of Depression and Dictatorship
  • Chapter 26. World War II
  • Part Seven: Europe in the Post-War Era
  • Chapter 27. Rebuilding Divided Europe
  • Chapter 28. Decolonization and a New Prosperity
  • Chapter 29. The Emergence of Contemporary Europe and the Collapse of Communism