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| List of Maps | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Foundations | |
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| Medieval Legacies and Transforming Discoveries | |
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| Medieval Continuities | |
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| The Emergence of Early Modern Europe | |
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| Transforming Discoveries | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Renaissance | |
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| The City-States of the Italian Peninsula | |
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| A Dynamic Culture | |
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| Renaissance Art | |
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| The End of the Renaissance | |
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| The Two Reformations | |
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| The Northern Renaissance | |
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| The Roots of the Reformation | |
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| Social Background of the Reformation in the German States | |
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| The Spread of the Reformation | |
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| The Reformation in Switzerland and France | |
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| The English Reformation | |
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| The Catholic Reformation | |
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| Culture during the Two Reformations | |
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| The Legacy of the Two Reformations | |
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| The Wars of Religion | |
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| The Wars of Religion in Sixteenth-Century France | |
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| The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) | |
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| Statemaking | |
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| The Rise of the Atlantic Economy: Spain and England | |
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| Economic Expansion | |
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| The Rise of Spain | |
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| The Rise of England | |
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| The Decline of Spain | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| England and the Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century | |
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| Conflicts in Stuart England | |
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| Religious Divisions | |
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| The English Civil War | |
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| The Glorious Revolution | |
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| The Golden Age of the Dutch Republic | |
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| The Decline of the Dutch Republic | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Age of Absolutism, 1650-1720 | |
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| Theories of Absolutism | |
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| Characterizing Absolute Rule | |
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| The Balance of Power | |
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| The Habsburg Monarchy | |
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| The Rise of Prussia | |
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| The Russian and Swedish Empires | |
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| The Modern State | |
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| New Cultural and Political Horizon | |
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| The New Philosophy of Science | |
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| Changing Views of the Universe | |
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| Descartes and Newton: Competing Theories of Scientific Knowledge | |
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| The Culture of Science | |
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| Consequences of the Scientific Revolution | |
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| Enlightened Thought and the Republic of Letters | |
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| Enlightened Ideas | |
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| The Diffusion and Expansion of the Enlightenment | |
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| Enlightened Absolutism | |
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| Currents of the Late Enlightenment | |
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| Legacy of the Enlightenment | |
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| Eighteenth-Century Economic and Social Change | |
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| The Social Order | |
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| The Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution | |
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| Social Changes | |
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| Social Control | |
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| A Century of Contrasts | |
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| Eighteenth-Century Dynastic Rivalries and Politics 386 | |
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| The Eighteenth-Century State System | |
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| Conflicts between the Great Powers | |
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| Political Change in Great Britain | |
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| Challenges to Established Authority | |
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| Declining Power, Disappearing State: The Ottoman Empire and Poland | |
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| Revolutionary Europe, 1789-1850 | |
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| The French Revolution | |
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| The Old Regime in Crisis | |
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| The First Stages of the Revolution | |
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| Consolidating the Revolution | |
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| War and the Second Revolution | |
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| The Final Stages of the Revolution | |
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| Perspectives on the French Revolution | |
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| Napoleon and Europe | |
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| Napoleon's Rise to Power | |
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| Consolidation of Power | |
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| The Foundations of the French Empire | |
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| The Tide Turns against Napoleon | |
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| Monarchical Restoration and Napoleon's Return | |
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| Napoleon's Legacy | |
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| Further Readings | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |