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

Contents vii

Chapter 4 The Wars of Religion 126

The Wars of Religion in Sixteenth-Century

France 127 A Strengthened Monarchy • Economic

Crisis • French Calvinists and the Crisis of the French

State • Henry of Navarre • Statemaking • Louis XIII

and the Origins of Absolute Rule

The Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) 145

Factionalism in the Holy Roman Empire • The

Origins of the Thirty Years' War • Conflict in Bohemia

• The Expansion of the Conflict • The Danish
  Period • The Swedish Interlude • The Armies of the
  Thirty Years' War • The Wars of Religion and Dynastic
  Struggles (1635-1648) • The Treaty of Westphalia
  (1648)

PART TWO STATEMAKING

Chapter 5 The Rise of the Atlantic Economy:

Spain and England 165

Economic Expansion 166 Increased Agricultural

Productivity • Expansion of Trade • The Global

Economy • Price Revolution and Depression

The Rise of Spain 171 Centralization and the

Spanish Monarchy • The Spanish Economy • The

Expansion of the Spanish Empire • The Age of

Philip II

The Rise of England 179 The House of Tudor •

Religious Settlement and Conflict under

Elizabeth I • Elizabeth's Statemaking • Demographic

and Economic Expansion • English Society in the

Tudor Period • The Quest for Public Order • The

Elizabethan Theater • An Emerging Empire

of Trade

The Decline of Spain 198 The Dutch Revolt •

Economic Decline • An Empire Spread Too Thin

Conclusion 206