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

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 ...

6 Ch. 1 • Medieval Legacies and Transforming Discoveries protected residents against bandits and disease (during times of plague ...

Medieval Continuities At the Crossroads of Cultures Europe stood at the crossroads between civilizations and religions (see Map ...

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Medieval Continuities 9 reduced to a small area straddling the straits between Asia and Europe, which included its capital, Cons ...

10 Ch. 1 • Medieval Legacies and Transforming Discoveries The clergy had many roles, serving as priests, teachers, judges, nurse ...

Medieval Continuities 11 plowing was to begin. Such councils coexisted with the seigneurial authority of lords. At least a fifth ...