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European State Consolidation in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | |
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The Netherlands: Golden Age to Decline | |
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Urban Prosperity | |
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Economic Decline | |
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Two Models of European Political Development | |
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Constitutional Crisis and Settlement in Stuart England | |
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James I | |
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Charles I | |
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The Long Parliament and Civil War | |
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Oliver Cromwell and the Puritan Republic | |
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Charles II and the Restoration of the Monarchy | |
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The ldquo;Glorious Revolutionrdquo; | |
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The Age of Walpole | |
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Rise of Absolute Monarchy in France: The World of Louis XIV | |
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Years of Personal Rule | |
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Versailles King by Divine Right Louisrsquo;s | |
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Early Wars | |
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Louisrsquo;s Repressive Religious Policies | |
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Louisrsquo;s Later Wars | |
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Franceafter Louis XIV | |
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Central and Eastern Europe | |
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Poland: Absence of Strong Central Authority | |
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The Habsburg Empire _and the Pragmatic Sanction | |
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Prussiaand the Hohenzollerns RussiaEnters the European Political Arena | |
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The Romanor Dynasty | |
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Peter the Great | |
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The Ottoman Empire | |
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Religious Toleration and Ottoman Government | |
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The End of Ottoman Expansion | |
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In Perspective | |
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New Directions in Thought and Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries | |
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The Scientific Revolution | |
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Nicolaus Copernicus Rejects an Earth-Centered Universe | |
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Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler Make New Scientific Discoveries | |
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Galileo Galilei Argues for a Universe of Mathematical Laws | |
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Isaac Newton Discovers _the Laws of Gravitation | |
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Philosophy Responds to Changing Science Nature as Mechanism | |
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Francis Bacon: The Empirical Method Reneacute; | |
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Descartes: The Method of Rational Deduction | |
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Thomas Hobbes: Apologist for Absolute Government | |
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John Locke: Defender of Moderate Liberty and Toleration | |
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The New Institutions of Expanding Natural Knowledge | |
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Women in the World of the Scientific Revolution | |
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The New Science and Religious Faith | |
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The Case of Galileo Blaise | |
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Pascal: Reason and Faith | |
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The English Approach to Science and Religion | |
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Continuing Superstition | |
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Witch-Hunts and Panic | |
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Who Were the Witches? | |
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End of the Witch-Hunts | |
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Baroque Art | |
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In Perspective | |
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Society and Economy Under the Old Regime in the Eig | |