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

346 Ch. 9 • Enlightened Thought And The Republic Of Letters Composers began to borrow from popular culture, especially from folk ...

Legacy of the Enlightenment 347 pieces slandering prominent people, including the royal family, and a few kept afloat by spying ...

348 Ch. 9 • Enlightened Thought And The Republic: Of Letters The philosophes’ belief in human dignity led them to oppose all for ...

CHAPTER 10 EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CHANGE I he great English landowners did as they pleased in the eigh­ teenth c ...

350 Ch. 10 • Eighteenth-Century Economic And Social Change Although in some ways society remained the same as in earlier centuri ...

The Social Order 351 centage in Russia, Spain, Poland, and Hungary, which together probably accounted for almost two-thirds of t ...

352 Ch. 10 • Eighteenth-Century Economic And Social Change jewelry, to occupy special church pews near the altar (in some places ...

The Social Order 353 The British Landed Elite In Britain, there were only about 200 families that claimed noble title. Yet the p ...

354 Ch. 10 • Eighteenth-Century Economic And Social Change of Vice, the Universities.” The goal of the “grand tour” of the conti ...

The Social Order 355 registered their births, married couples, and buried the dead. Priests and ministers supervised charitable ...

356 Ch. 10 • Eighteenth-Century Economic And Social Change Triumphant merchants at table. Note that one of the merchants is smok ...

The Social Order 357 regions where lords dominated peasants of another ethnic group, as in Bohemia, where German landowners drew ...

358 Ch. 10 • Eighteenth-Century Economic And Social Change offenses such as poaching and trespassing, civil suits for debt, and ...

The Social Order 359 A family of serfs paying homage to their lord. Note the wife kissing the noble’s hand. state. Villages were ...

360 Ch. 10 • Eighteenth-Century Economic And Social Change 30,000 Transylvanian peasants rose up after a false rumor spread tha ...

The Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution 361 Measuring land in preparation for enclosure. tion to the British gross national ...

362 Ch. 10 • Eighteenth-Century Economic And Social Change improve farming techniques. Primitive farming techniques (including w ...

The Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution 363 unusually cold and damp seventeenth century. This had a salutary effect on popul ...

364 Ch. 10 • Eighteenth-Century Economic And Social Change Population Growth The European population rose from about 120 million ...

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