A history of modern Europe / John Merriman, Yale University. From the Renaissance to the present [print]

Includes index.

PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS -- Medieval legacies and transforming discoveries -- The Renaissance -- The two reformations -- The wars of religion --

PART TWO: STATEMAKING -- The rise of the Atlantic economy: Spain and England -- England and the Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century -- The Age of Absolutism, 1650-1720 --

PART THREE: NEW CULTURAL AND POLITICAL HORIZONS -- The new philosophy of science -- Enlightened thought and the Republic of Letters -- Eighteenth-Century economic and social change -- Eighteenth-Century dynastic rivalries and politics --

PART FOUR: REVOLUTIONARY EUROPE, 1789-1850 -- The French Revolution -- Napoleon and Europe -- The Industrial Revolution -- Liberal challenges to restoration Europe -- The Revolution of 1848 --

PART FIVE: THE AGE OF MASS POLITICS -- The era of national unification -- Three powers in the Age of Liberalism: Parliamentary Britain, Tsarist Russia, and Republican France -- Rapid industrialization and its challenges, 1870-1914 -- Political and cultural responses to a rapidly changing world -- The age of Europe an Imperialism --

PART SIX: CATACLYSM -- The Great War -- Revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union -- The elusive search for stability in the 1920s -- The Europe of economic depression and dictatorship -- World War II --

PART SEVEN: EUROPE IN THE POST-WAR ERA -- Rebuilding divided Europe -- The Cold War and the end of European empires -- Transitions to democracy and the collapse of communism -- Global challenges: The war against terror and the uncertainties of a New Age.

Students and instructors alike praise A History of Modern Europe for its authoritative coverage from the Renaissance to the present day. Written in Merriman's signature narrative style, the book is brightened with humor and biographical sketches. The Fourth Edition reflects the latest scholarship while placing special emphasis on the theme of war and society. A new full-color design features a completely redrawn map program and new pedagogical and teaching tools. AMAZON

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