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Lindsay, J.O, editor.
ImprintCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1957.
Description1 online resource (xx, 592 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Note:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).
Note:The growth of overseas commerce and European manufacture / C.H. Wilson -- The social classes and the foundations of the states / J.O. Lindsay -- The visual arts and imaginative literature / Albert Richardson -- The Enlightenment / A. Cobban -- Religion / R.W. Greaves -- Monarchy and administration : European practice / J.O. Lindsay -- The English inspiration / W.R. Brock -- The armed forces and the art of war / Eric Robson -- International relations / J.O. Lindsay -- The decline of divine-right monarchy in France / A. Cobban -- England / W.R. Brock -- The western Mediterranean and Italy / J.O. Lindsay -- The organisation and rise of Prussia / W.H. Bruford -- Russia / Ian Young -- Scandinavia and the Baltic / R.M. Hatton -- Poland under the Saxon kings / L.R. Lewitter -- The Habsburg dominions / C.A. Macartney -- The war of the Austrian succession / Mark A. Thomson -- The diplomatic revolution / D.R. Horn -- The Seven Years War / Eric Robson -- The development of the American communities : Latin America / J.H. Parry -- North America / Frank Thistlethwaite -- Rivalries in America : The Caribbean / J.H. Parry -- The North American continent / Frank Thistlethwaite -- Rivalries in India / C.C. Davies -- Economic relations in Africa and the Far East : Africa / J. Gallagher -- Asia / Victor Purcell.
Note:This volume surveys the political, military and diplomatic history of a period of changing alliances and limited and gentlemanly but frequent wars. It gives particular weight to the emergence of Prussia and Russia as European Powers and to the rivalry of France and England in America, in India and on the high seas. The economic background to these national fortunes is of increasing international trade, technological progress and colonialisation. Socially, European society slowly evolved from the domination of the aristocracy to that of urban populations and bourgeois administrators. Intellectually, the culture of Europe took on what are recognized as specifically eighteenth-century forms and ideals. From the point of view of world history this period saw the confirmation of European pre-eminence and dominion.
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