A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1

About this eBook

Author

Hayes, Carlton J. H. (Carlton Joseph Huntley), 1882-1964

Title

A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.

Credits

Produced by Anne Soulard, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

D: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere

Subject

Europe -- Politics and government

Category

Text

eBook-No.

6417

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6417

Release Date

September 1, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT
4. 4.CONTENTS — CHAPTER I. THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY The New National Monarchies The Old Holy Roman Empire The City-States Northern and Eastern Europe in the year 1500 — PART II — PART III
5. 5.INTRODUCTION — ADDITIONAL READING
6. 6.PART I
7. 7.CHAPTER I — 1. THE NEW NATIONAL MONARCHIES — ENGLAND — FRANCE — SPAIN AND PORTUGAL — 2. THE OLD HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE — 3. THE CITY-STATES — 4. NORTHERN AND EASTERN EUROPE IN THE YEAR 1500 — ADDITIONAL READINGS
8. 8.CHAPTER II — AGRICULTURE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY — TOWNS ON THE EVE OF THE COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION — TRADE PRIOR TO THE COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION — THE AGE OF EXPLORATION — ESTABLISHMENT OF COLONIAL EMPIRES — EFFECTS OF THE COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION — ADDITIONAL READING
9. 9.CHAPTER III — THE EMPEROR CHARLES V — PHILIP II AND THE PREDOMINANCE OF SPAIN — ADDITIONAL READING
10. 10.CHAPTER IV — THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AT THE OPENING OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY — THE PROTESTANT REVOLT — LUTHERANISM — CALVINISM — ANGLICANISM — THE CATHOLIC REFORMATION — SUMMARY OF THE RELIGIOUS REVOLUTION IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY — ADDITIONAL READING
11. 11.CHAPTER V — THE INVENTION OF PRINTING — HUMANISM — ART IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY — NATIONAL LITERATURE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY — BEGINNINGS OF MODERN NATURAL SCIENCE — ADDITIONAL READING
12. 12.PART II
13. 13.CHAPTER VI — GROWTH OF ABSOLUTISM IN FRANCE: HENRY IV, RICHELIEU, AND MAZARIN — STRUGGLE BETWEEN BOURBONS AND HABSBURGS THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR — ADDITIONAL READING
14. 14.CHAPTER VII — THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV — EXTENSION OF FRENCH FRONTIERS — THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION — ADDITIONAL READING
15. 15.CHAPTER VIII — CONFLICTING POLITICAL TENDENCIES IN ENGLAND: ABSOLUTISM VERSUS PARLIAMENTARIANISM — THE PURITAN REVOLUTION — THE RESTORATION: THE REIGN OF CHARLES II — THE "GLORIOUS REVOLUTION" AND THE FINAL ESTABLISHMENT OF PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT IN GREAT BRITAIN — ADDITIONAL READING
16. 16.CHAPTER IX — FRENCH AND ENGLISH COLONIES IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY — PRELIMINARY ENCOUNTERS, 1689-1748 — THE TRIUMPH OF GREAT BRITAIN: THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR, 1756-1763 — ADDITIONAL READING
17. 17.CHAPTER X — THE BRITISH COLONIAL SYSTEM IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY — THE WAR OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, 1775-1783 — THE REFORMATION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE — ADDITIONAL READING
18. 18.CHAPTER XI — THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE IN DECLINE — THE HABSBURG DOMINIONS — THE RISE OF PRUSSIA. THE HOHENZOLLERNS — THE MINOR GERMAN STATES — THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN HOHENZOLLERNS AND HABSBURGS — ADDITIONAL READING
19. 19.CHAPTER XII — RUSSIA IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY — PETER THE GREAT — SWEDEN AND THE CAREER OF CHARLES XII — CATHERINE THE GREAT: THE DEFEAT OF TURKEY AND THE DISMEMBERMENT OF POLAND — ADDITIONAL READING
20. 20.PART III
21. 21.CHAPTER XIII — AGRICULTURE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY — COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY — THE PRIVILEGED CLASSES — RELIGIOUS AND ECCLESIASTICAL CONDITIONS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY — SCIENTIFIC AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY — ADDITIONAL READING
22. 22.CHAPTER XIV — THE BRITISH MONARCHY — THE ENLIGHTENED DESPOTS — THE FRENCH MONARCHY — ADDITIONAL READING
23. 23.CHAPTER XV — THE END OF ABSOLUTISM IN FRANCE, 1789 — THE END OF THE OLD RÉGIME: THE NATIONAL CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY, 1789-1791 — THE LIMITED MONARCHY IN OPERATION: THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY (1791-1792) AND THE OUTBREAK OF FOREIGN WAR — THE DIRECTORY (1795-1799) AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE REPUBLIC INTO A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP — SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION (1789-1799) — ADDITIONAL READING
24. 24.CHAPTER XVI — THE FRENCH REPUBLIC UNDER THE CONSULATE, 1799-1804 — THE FRENCH EMPIRE AND ITS TERRITORIAL EXPANSION — DESTRUCTION OF THE FRENCH EMPIRE — SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ERA OF NAPOLEON — ADDITIONAL READING

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