The Transformation Of Europe 1558 1648
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Author |
: Charles Wilson |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 2023-12-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520325517 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520325516 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Transformation of Europe 1558-1648 by : Charles Wilson
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.
Author |
: Robin W. Winks |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 219 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0195154460 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780195154467 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Europe, 1648-1815 by : Robin W. Winks
In 1648, Europe was reeling from the destabilizing effects of religious conflict, economic change, and social upheaval. The issues that divided the Church in the late Middle Ages had forced Europeans to choose sides in a bitter and bloody Catholic/Protestant conflict. A powerful capitalist movement had broken down old social ties, leading to the near disappearance of serfdom in Western Europe and to the formation of a larger merchant class in the cities. The discoveries of the Scientific Revolution had begun to corrode old certainties about the universe, just as the exploration of the New World was revealing the existence of peoples, cultures, and even continents that would have been unimaginable to previous generations. In the face of such chaos, which led many to fear that society was heading towards an utter breakdown, the European elite engaged in a desperate effort to restore order. Between 1648 and 1750, peoples and governments throughout Europe sought to contain the shift toward anarchy through the reinforcement of religious orthodoxies, the strengthening of national states, and the stiffening of social hierarchies. But by the later eighteenth century, the success of this effort led paradoxically to new institutional and intellectual demands for change. The search for order had given way to a quest for progress. A new movement known as "the Enlightenment" was transforming the old order, and revolution was about to become a Western tradition. Europe, 1648-1815 is a concise narrative of this fascinating epoch in European history. Framing the events of the period in terms of two successive movements--the search for order and the pursuit of reform--this book surveys the political, economic, social, and cultural events of the period, from the rise of absolutism to the campaigns of Napoleon, from the creation of European empires in the Americas to the controversies of the Enlightenment. With numerous selections from primary sources, a detailed and updated bibliography, a chronology of the period, and numerous illustrations, Europe, 1648-1815 is indispensable for courses on Early Modern Europe. It can be used as a stand-alone textbook or in conjunction with supplementary readings.
Author |
: Walter Cohen |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 2019-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501741661 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501741667 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Drama of a Nation by : Walter Cohen
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in the midst of an international florescence of drama, the English and Spanish theaters displayed striking and unique similarities. Although these two national theaters developed in relative isolation from each other, in both countries the plays synthesized native popular traditions and neoclassical learned conventions, a synthesis found neither in the more elite Italian and French drama of the time nor in any other European drama before or since. In Drama of a Nation, Walter Cohen illuminates the causes of this significant parallel development. Working from a Marxist perspective, Cohen seeks to establish correlations among individual plays, dramatic genres, theatrical institutions, cultural milieus, and political and economic systems. He argues that the drama owed its distinctiveness to the public theaters, especially of London and Madrid, which opened in the 1570s and closed, under government order, seventy years later. Both drama and theater in turn depended on a relative cultural homogeneity perpetuated by a state that primarily served the aristocracy. Absolutism, he maintains, first fostered and then undermined the public theater.
Author |
: Leonard Dudley |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 373 |
Release |
: 1991 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781557862464 |
ISBN-13 |
: 155786246X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Word and the Sword by : Leonard Dudley
Dudley attempts to impose a pattern on the entire history of human civilization. He shows how the major transformations in the character of social life have been determined by eight significant innovations: four new ways of dealing with information - writing, printing, mass media and integrated circuits; and four new ways of organizing the applications of violence - metal weapons, artillery, steam transport and heavy cavalry. Military and informational technologies are so crucial because they are instrumental in holding states together, while innovation in itself tends to produce new economies of scale.
Author |
: G. V. Scammell |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 645 |
Release |
: 2018-05-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351014694 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351014692 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis The World Encompassed by : G. V. Scammell
In this authoritative study, first published in 1981, Geoffrey Scammell traces the course of European expansion between around 800 and 1650, during which time the world known to western Europeans was enlarged in a way unparalleled before or since. The book takes a broad historical perspective, linking the classic age of European expansion to its medieval antecedents. The Norse reached North America in the tenth century, Italian missionaries and traders were established in China in the high Middle Ages, and during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, in some of the greatest voyages ever made under sail, Iberian explorers crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and established footholds in the Americas, Africa and Asia. This is a stimulating and perceptive study, based on wide-ranging research, which makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the influence of empire on both colonial and metropolitan societies.
Author |
: John Morris Roberts |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 1976-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520030761 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520030763 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Revolution and Improvement by : John Morris Roberts
Author |
: K. R. Dark |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2016-10-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781474288316 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1474288316 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Waves of Time by : K. R. Dark
Since the end of the Cold War, analysts of international politics have given much greater attention to issues of change. It has become increasingly clear to specialists from many fields that any understanding of large-scale political change must encompass far longer timescales than has been usual in the study of world politics, and must incorporate multi-disciplinary perspectives. This book evaluates and draws on relevant theoretical approaches from other disciplines such as sociology, economics, geography, history, anthropology and archaeology, as well as evolutionary theory and the mathematical study of complexity. Using an epistemological framework, Dark sets out a theory of long-term world political change: the theory of 'Macrodynamics'. This is then applied to historical, anthropological and archaeological data to explain the changing forms of political organization, from the earliest human societies to the late twentieth century. The resulting analysis is a reinterpretation of the processes of global political change in the past and present. This, in turn, opens new areas of enquiry in the study of international relations and has profound implications for how we understand the changing world of today.
Author |
: Charles Poor Kindleberger |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0472106422 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780472106424 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The World Economy and National Finance in Historical Perspective by : Charles Poor Kindleberger
A distinguished scholar looks at current financial problems from a historical perspective
Author |
: Colm Gillis |
Publisher |
: Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 2014-08-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781499088045 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1499088043 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mysteries of State in the Renaissance by : Colm Gillis
Government decisions shape our lives, but how much do we know about the foundations of modern political thought? Theorists in the Renaissance constructed the ideological world we inhabit. They claimed to have mastered natural secrets whilst also promising perpetual, flawless, and scientifically demonstrable rule. Selective applications of artistic themes, religious symbols, imperialistic concepts and spells cast by intellectual magic, helped advance sovereign rule. By mid-17th century, these speculations were spinning an elaborate web of control. If we wish to understand myths of our current age, the intellectual mystique enshrouding origins of the modern State must first be revealed.
Author |
: William Woodruff |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 1993-07-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781349133338 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1349133337 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Concise History of the Modern World by : William Woodruff
In an ever-shrinking world, the need for a global perspective in dealing with the modern world has become acute. This book attempts to provide such a perspective by investigating the major changes in geopolitics and world economy during the past 500 years. However compact, it enables us to understand the present unravelling of Communism and the growing challenge from Asia to Western Superiority. It is shown that in so many ways the problems of the contemporary world spring from the unprecedented era of western domination, which the non-western world is now trying to unlive.