Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-380) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue: Europe and the World Around / Anthony Pagden 1 -- Europe: The Myths of Europe -- A Continent and its Peoples -- Cultural Inheritance -- Frontiers and Boundaries -- Technologies and their Impact -- Sense of being European -- Quest for Peace and Union -- I. Sixteenth Century, c.1500-c.1618 29 -- 1. Conditions of Life for the Masses / Alison Rowlands 31 -- 2. Power of the Word: Renaissance and Reformation / Euan Cameron 63 -- 3. War, Religion, and the State / Steven Gunn 102 -- II. Seventeenth Century, c.1618-c.1715 135 -- 4. Colonies, Enterprises, and Wealth: the Economies of Europe and the Wider World / R. A. Houston 137 -- 5. Embattled Faiths: Religion and Natural Philosophy / Robin Briggs 171 -- 6. Warfare, Crisis, and Absolutism / Jeremy Black 206 -- III. Eighteenth Century, c.1715-c.1789 231 -- 7. A Widening Market in Consumer Goods / James C. Riley 233 -- 8. Enlightenment / Norman Hampson 265 -- 9. Europe Turns East: Political Developments / H. M. Scott 298 -- Epilogue: The Old Order Transformed 1789-1815 / T. C. W. Blanning 345.
