Title:
The eighteenth century : Europe 1688-1815 / edited by T.C.W. Blanning 18th century
18th century 18th century
The short Oxford history of Europe 18th century
Short Oxford history of Europe 18th century
Main Entry:
Blanning, T. C. W
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Publication Date:
2000
Publication Place:
Oxford [England] ; New York :
ISBN:
0198731817
9780198731818
0198731205
9780198731207
Subject:
Europe -- History -- 18th century
Europe -- Civilization -- 18th century
Europe -- Social conditions -- 18th century
Europe -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
History.
Series:
The short Oxford history of Europe
Short Oxford history of Europe
Contents:
Introduction : The beneficiaries and casualties of expansion / T.C.W. Blanning -- 1. Politics and the state in eighteenth-century Europe / Julian Swann : European states: monarchies, republics, and despotisms ; High politics ; Enlightened absolutism ; Corporate politics ; Representative politics ; Politics and the people ; Radicals and republicans ; Conclusion -- 2. Orders and classes: eighteenth-century society under pressure / Christof Dipper : The stages of demographic expansion ; The dissolution of the society of orders: estate-owners, tenants, peasants, rural labours, industrial workers, high finance, Jews ; Poverty and poor relief ; Social forces making for continuity: the nobility, townspeople ; The image of society -- 3. The European economy in the eighteenth century / Sheilagh Ogilvie : Agriculture ; Industry ; Trade -- 4. Religion and culture / Derek Beales : Religion, to mid-century ; Culture before the middle of the century ; Religion, enlightenment, and culture from mid-century to 1789 ; Epilogue: The French Revolution -- 5. International rivalry and warfare / John A. Lynn : The old regime, 1700-1789: the international system, the military system, the practice of war, the war of the Spanish Succession, the war of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years War ; Revolution and empire, 1789-1815: revolutionary change and international continuity, 1789-1802; war and partition, 1792-1795; Napoleon's military revolution, 1802-1812; the apogee of Napoleon, 1805-1807; the formation of the Concert of Europe -- 6. Europe and the rest of the world / P.J. Marshall : Europeans outside Europe: empires in the Americas, the crisis of the American empires, Asian trade, new empires in Asia, European perspectives, the benefits of expansion, envisaging new worlds -- Conclusion: The French Revolution and beyond / T.C.W. Blanning -- Chronology
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