A History of Modern Europe - From the Renaissance to the Present

xviii Contents Chapter 26 the Jews • Hitler s Foreign Policy • The Fiihrer and the Duce • Remilitarization and Rearmament The So ...

Contents xix Economic Recovery and Prosperity, the Welfare State, and European Economic Cooperation 1119 Economic Cooperation • ...

xx Contents Chapter 30 Czechoslovakia • Revolutions in Bulgaria, Romaniay and Albania • The Collapse of the Soxnet Union • The D ...

Maps The Ottoman Empire, c. 1500 8 Europe in 1500 26 Spread of Printing through Europe, 1450-1508 34 Exploration and Conquest, 1 ...

xxii Maps The Industrial Revolution in Europe, 1815-1860 525 The Zollverein (German Customs Union), 1834 530 Europe after the Co ...

Preface Caught as we are in a global economic crisis, the interconnec¬ tions of economies, nations, and societies around the wor ...

xxiv Preface as well as, finally, decolonization, the European powers and cultures have affected the histories of non-Western pe ...

Preface xxv sovereignty not only in early modern England and the Dutch Republic, but also in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ...

xxvi Preface increasing the reach of their effective authority over their own people. Portu¬ gal, Spain, England (and later as G ...

Preface xxvii atrocities perpetuated in Bosnia in the 1990s recall the ravaging of Central Europe during the Thirty Years’ War. ...

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Acknowledgments Charles Tilly died during the time I was working on the third edition of A History of Modern Europe. His friends ...

xxx Acknowledgments Andrew Devenney (Central Michigan University), Nicholas Murray (Adiron¬ dack Community College), Paul Deslan ...

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Part One Foundations As Europe emerged from the Middle Ages, a dynamic era of trade, statebuilding, and global discovery began t ...

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CHAPTER 1 MEDIEVAL LEGACIES AND TRANSFORMING DISCOVERIES Jacob Fugger (1455-1525) was one of the sons of a weaver who settled in ...

4 Ch. 1 • Medieval Legacies and Transforming Discoveries (Left) Jacob Fugger, merchant-banker and creditor of rulers and popes, ...

Medieval Continuities 5 in the eleventh or twelfth century, now helped guide European exploration across the oceans. Spanish and ...