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Europe Unfolding
1648-1688
John Stoye (Author)
9780631213871, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 3 November 2000
336 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.485 kg
"A well-written, sure, compact narrative which does ample justice to every significant aspect of late seventeenth-century Europe." Times Literary Supplement
The revised edition of this classic text covers both the turbulence of war which raged throughout this period, and explores how, alongside such turbulence, it was possible for some countries to both flourish and produce spectacular advances in art, science and thinking.
List of Maps. Preface. 1. A New Stability at the Centre. 2. The Crises of Eastern Europe. 3. The Eclipse of France. 4. The Survival of Spain. 5. The Standstill of the North. 6. The Minor Experiments in Autocracy. 7. The Major Experiment: France. 8. The European Mind, 1640-70. 9. The Diplomacy and Warfare of Louis XIV, 1660-80. 10. The Ottoman Empire and its Impact on Europe, 1672-88. 11. The Uneasy Calm of Western Europe, 1678-88. 12. Epilogue: The Interlock of 1688. The Ruling Dynasties. Further Reading. Index.
Subject Areas: History [HB]
