Contributor
Swisher, Clarice, 1933-
Imprint:San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, 2002.
Description287 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Note:Ch. 1: EUROPEAN NATIONS STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL POWER: The Thirty Years' War in Europe / Garrit P. Judd -- Civil war in England / Robert Edwin Herzstein -- The Glorious Revolution / Will Durant, Ariel Durant -- The Ottoman Turks are defeated in Vienna / Frederick L. Nussbaum -- Peter the Great and Russia's emerging role / B.H. Sumner -- Louis XIV at the peak of absolutism / T. Walter Wallbank, Alastair M. Taylor -- Ch. 2: ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENTS AND NATURAL DISASTERS IN ENGLAND: England's transport revolution / Phyllis Deane -- The development of joint-stock companies / George Clark -- New institutions revolutionize finances / Paul Kennedy -- Structural groundwork for the industrial revolution / François Crouzet -- The Plague of 1665/ Daniel Defoe -- The great fire of London / Samuel Pepys -- Ch. 3: THE AGE OF REASON AND THE ARTS: Modern reason supplants medieval philosophy / Francis Bacon, René Descartes -- The scientific revolution / Fritjof Capra -- Bach and Handel: two baroque masters / Kenneth Clark -- Five baroque painters [Caravaggio, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt van Rijn, Vermeer, Diego Rodríquez de Silva y Velásquez] / Mary Ann Frese Will et al. -- Literature in the age of reason / George K. Anderson, Robert Warnock -- Ch. 4: POWER SHIFTS IN ASIA AND AUSTRALIA: Japanese rulers oust foreigners and isolate the country / G.B. Sansom -- The rise of the Ch'ing dynasty in China / Frederic Wakeman, Jr. -- The decline of the Mogul empire in India / Woodbridge Bingham, Hilary Conroy, Frank W. Iklé -- The English East India Company prevails in India / J.H. Parry -- The evolving French interest in Southeast Asia / Richard Allen -- Cook discovers eastern Australia / Roderick Cameron -- Ch. 5: EUROPEAN NATIONS DOMINATE THE AMERICAS: The English establish the American colonies / Allan Nevins, Henry Steele Commager, with Jeffrey Morris -- The colonial governor addresses the problem of witchcraft / William Phips -- The witchcraft trial of Susanna Martin / Cotton Mather -- Americans rise against oppression / Howard Zinn -- Two perspectives on the Boston Massacre / James Bowdoin et al. -- The French found New France in Canada / Alfred Leroy Burt -- The fall of Quebec ends the French empire in Canada / Guy Frégault -- Social complexity in colonial Mexico / J.I. Israel -- Ch. 6: DECLINE AND UNEST IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA : The slave trade / Paul Bohannan, Philip Curtin -- Early petitions for freedom / Anthony Pieterson, Phillip Corven, Peter Vantrump -- The Dutch settle South Africa / Harm J. de Blij -- The decline of the Ottoman Empire / Andrew Mango.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
