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List of Maps | |
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List of Boxes | |
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Books Related Interest | |
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Preface | |
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Introduction | |
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Breakdown and Renewal in an Age of Plague | |
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Population Catastrophes Demographic Decline | |
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Plague | |
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Economic Depression and Recovery Agricultural Specialization | |
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Protectionism | |
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Technological Advances | |
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The Standard of Living | |
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Popular Unrest Rural Revolts | |
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Urban Revolts | |
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The Seeds of Discontent | |
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Challenges of the Governments of Europe Roots of Political Unrest | |
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The Nobility and Factional Strife | |
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England, France, and the Hundred Years' War | |
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The Tides of the Battle | |
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The Effectors of the Hundred Years' War | |
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The States of Italy | |
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The Fall of Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire The Fall of Constantinople | |
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Tradition and Change in European Culture, 1300-1500 | |
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The New Learning The Founding of Humanism | |
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Humanism in the Fifteenth Century | |
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The Florentine Neoplatonists | |
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The Heritage of the New Learning | |
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Art and the Artists in the Italian Renaissance Three Friends | |
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The High Renaissance | |
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Status and Perception | |
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The Culture of the NorthChivalry and Decay | |
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Contemporary Views of Northern Society | |
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Art and Music | |
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Scholastic Philosophy, Religious Thought, and Piety The 'Modern Way' | |
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Social and Scientific Thought | |
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The State of Christendom Styles of Piety | |
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Movements of Doctrinal Reform | |
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Reformations in Religion | |
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Piety and DissentDoctrine and Reform | |
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Causes of Discontent | |
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Popular Religion | |
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Piety and Protest in Literature and Art | |
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Christian Humanism | |
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The Lutheran ReformationThe Conditions for Change | |
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Martin Luther | |
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The Break with Rome | |
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Lutheran Doctrine and Practice | |
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The Spread of Lutheranism | |
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Lutheranism Established | |
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The Spread of Protestantism Zwingli and the Radicals | |
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Persecution of the Radicals | |
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John Calvin | |
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Calvinism | |
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The Anglican Church | |
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The Catholic RevivalStrengths and Weaknesses | |
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The Council of Trent | |
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The Aftermath of Trent | |
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Ignatius Loyola | |
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Religion and Politics | |
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Economic Expansion and a New Politics | |
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Expansion at HomePopulation Increase | |
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Economic Growth | |
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Social Change | |
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Expansion OverseasThe Portuguese | |
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The Spaniards | |
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The First Colonial Empire | |
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The Centralization of Political Powers Tudor England | |
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Louis XI and Charles VIII | |
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The Growth of Government Powers | |
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United Spain | |
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Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | |
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The Splintered States | |
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The New StatecraftNew International Relations | |
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Machiavelli and Guicciardini | |
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War and Crisis | |
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Rivalry and War in the Age of Philip II Elizabeth I of England | |
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The Dutch Revolt | |
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Civil War in France | |
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From Unbounded War to International Crisis The Thirty years' War | |
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The Peace of Westphalia | |
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The Military Revolution Weapons and Tactics | |
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The Organization and Support of Armies | |
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The Life of the Soldier | |
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Revolution in EnglandPressures for Change | |
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Parliament and Law | |
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Rising Antagonisms | |
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England Under Cromwell | |
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Revolts in France and SpainThe France of Henry IV | |
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Louis XIII | |
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Political and Social Crisis | |
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The Fronde | |
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Sources of Discontent in Spain | |
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Revolt and Secession | |
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Political Change in an Age of Crisis The Unites Provinces | |
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Sweden | |
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Eastern Europe and the Crisis | |
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Culture and Society in the Age of the Scientific Revolution | |
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Scientific Advance from Copernicus to Newton Origins of the Scientific Revolution | |
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The Breakthroughs | |
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The Climax of the Scientific Revolution: Isaac Newton | |
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The Effects of the Discoveries The New Epistemology | |
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Bacon and Descartes | |
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Pascal's Protest Against New Sciences | |
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Science Institutionalized | |
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The Arts and Literature Unsettling Art | |
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Unsettling Writers | |
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The Return of Assurance to the Arts | |
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Stability and Restraint in the Arts | |
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Social Patterns and Popular Culture Popular Trends | |
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Social Status | |
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Mobility and Crime | |
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Changes in the Villages and Cities | |
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Belief in Magic and Rituals | |
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Forces of Restraint/Conclusion | |
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The Emergence of the European State System | |
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Absolutism in France The Rule of Louis X | |