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

For Laura Merriman and Christopher Merriman Copyright © 2010, 2004, 1996 by John Merriman All rights reserved Printed in the Uni ...

Contents List of Maps xxi Preface xxiii Acknowledgments xxix Chapter 1 PART ONE FOUNDATIONS Medieval Legacies and Transforming D ...

vi Contents A Dynamic Culture 55 The Rediscovery of Classical Learning • From Scholasticism to Humanism • The Renaissance and Re ...

Contents vii Chapter 4 The Wars of Religion 126 The Wars of Religion in Sixteenth-Century France 127 A Strengthened Monarchy • E ...

viii Contents Chapter 6 England and the Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century 208 Conflicts in Stuart England 209 Conflicts ...

Contents ix PART THREE NEW CULTURAL AND POLITICAL HORIZONS Chapter 8 The New Philosophy of Science 287 Changing Views of the Uni ...

x Contents Chapter 1 0 Eighteenth-Century Economic and Social Chance 349 The Social Order 350 Nobles • The British Landed Elite ...

PART FOUR REVOLUTIONARY EUROPE, 1789- Contents xi Chapter 12 The French Revolution 435 The Old Regime in Crisis 436 Long-Term Ca ...

xii Contents Monarchical Restoration and Napoleon’s Return 508 The Bourbon Restoration • The 100 Days Napoleon’s Legacy 510 Chap ...

Contents xiii Liberalism 579 Liberals and Politics • Laissez-Faire Romanticism 582 Conservative Origins • Romantic Literature an ...

XIV Contents Southern Italy • Italy Unified • Limits to Unification • Italian Politics • The Rise of Italian Nationalism The Uni ...

Contents xv Chapter 1 9 Rapid Industrialization and Its Challenges, 1 870-1914 742 The Second Industrial Revolution 744 New Tech ...

XVI Contents The European Powers in Asia 835 lndiay Southeast Asia, and China • Japan and China: Contrasting Experiences • The U ...

Contents xvii Chapter 2 3 Revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union 927 War and Revolution 928 Russia at War • The February Revo ...

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 ...