A Short History of Europe, 1600-1815: Search for a Reasonable WorldM.E. Sharpe, 19 oct. 2000 A concise and lively survey that introduces students to the people, ideas, and conflicts in European history from the Thirty Years' War to the Napoleonic Era. The authors draw on new work in gender studies, environmental history, anthropology and cultural history to illustrate the animating force of the period: the assumption that the world could be made amenable to human reason, though precisely how that was to be done remained highly contested. The nature of those contests--in politics, culture, and society--is traced throughout the book. The work includes discussions of developments in science, art, and literature. A chronology of people and events concludes each chapter and there is a glossary of key terms at the end of the book. |
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... cultural history , including women's history . No such survey can lay claim to comprehensive coverage of all top- ics worthy of consideration , nor is it always easy to find a balance be- tween being reader - friendly and ...
... cultural history , including women's history . No such survey can lay claim to comprehensive coverage of all top- ics worthy of consideration , nor is it always easy to find a balance be- tween being reader - friendly and ...
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... culture and the economic expansion that made it possible . We will ana- lyze the calls for reform and revolution in the late eighteenth century and their culmination in the French Revolution and Napoleon . Throughout , we will stress ...
... culture and the economic expansion that made it possible . We will ana- lyze the calls for reform and revolution in the late eighteenth century and their culmination in the French Revolution and Napoleon . Throughout , we will stress ...
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... cultural and so- cial movements that dissolved the medieval worldview . There are any number of surveys that cover that period . But by 1600 , the impetus of Renaissance and Reformation was beginning to wane . There are no neat labels ...
... cultural and so- cial movements that dissolved the medieval worldview . There are any number of surveys that cover that period . But by 1600 , the impetus of Renaissance and Reformation was beginning to wane . There are no neat labels ...
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... culture of the ancient Roman empire , even though large sections of the northern plain had remained outside the direct influence of ancient Rome . That culture , considered by Europeans the most glori- ous the world had ever known , had ...
... culture of the ancient Roman empire , even though large sections of the northern plain had remained outside the direct influence of ancient Rome . That culture , considered by Europeans the most glori- ous the world had ever known , had ...
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... culture ; it also spread ver- nacular languages as they went from speech , to paper , to print . Despite the humanists ' assumption of a common history for all of Europe , the spread of culture via the printing press could produce divi ...
... culture ; it also spread ver- nacular languages as they went from speech , to paper , to print . Despite the humanists ' assumption of a common history for all of Europe , the spread of culture via the printing press could produce divi ...
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The Mental Universe | 52 |
Politics or Religion? The Thirty Years War | 73 |
Who Should Rule in England? | 96 |
ca 16601720 | 121 |
Public Sphere and Private Lives | 229 |
Enlightenment Reason Nature and Progress | 250 |
Enlightenment in National Context | 269 |
Enlightened Absolutism | 287 |
A Consumer Society | 305 |
ca 17901815 | 329 |
The Reform of France | 331 |
Turns of Fortunes Wheel France 17891795 | 352 |
Louis XIV and Absolute Monarchy | 123 |
The Arts in the Age of the Baroque | 146 |
Trade War and Monarchy in the Seventeenth Century | 167 |
Europe Overseas | 189 |
The Pursuit of Truth | 209 |
ca 17301790 | 227 |
Napoleon and the Export of the French Revolution | 378 |
Glossary | 403 |
Notes | 409 |
Index | 423 |
About the Authors | |
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Pagina 56 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,— often the surfeit of our own behaviour,— we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity ; fools by' heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence...
Pagina 113 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are...
Pagina 113 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Pagina 209 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the lovemaking, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Pagina 116 - I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live, as the greatest he; and therefore truly, sir, I think it's clear, that every man that is to live under a government ought first by his own consent to put himself under that government...
Pagina 114 - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Pagina 54 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Pagina 284 - He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can mak' a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith, he mauna fa' that! For a
Pagina 197 - The state of slavery is in its own nature bad. It is neither useful to the master nor to the slave ; not to the slave, because he can do nothing through a motive of virtue; nor to the master, because by having an unlimited authority over his slaves he insensibly accustoms himself to the want of all moral virtues, and thence becomes fierce, hasty, severe, choleric, voluptuous, and cruel.
Pagina 174 - Or else when by the Miscarriages of those in Authority, it is forfeited; upon the Forfeiture of their Rulers, or at the Determination of the Time set, it reverts to the Society, and the People have a Right to act as Supreme, and continue the Legislative in themselves, or erect a new Form, or under the old form place it in new hands, as they think good.