Raymond Birn

Crisis, Absolutism, Revolution

Europe and the World, 1648-1789, Third Edition

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Produktbeschreibung

Birn's exceptionally well-written narrative covers the century and a half that preceded the French Revolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 594
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9781551115610
• ISBN-10: 1551115611
• Artikelnr.: 33308551

Autorenporträt

Raymond Birn is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon, and also the author of Forging Rousseau: Print, Commerce and Cultural Manipulation in the Late Enlightenment.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Part I: An Age of Crisis and Discovery (1648-1715/26)
Chapter 1. The People, the Land, and the State
Chapter 2. The Age of Mercantilism
Chapter 3. Crisis and Resolution: the West
Chapter 4. Crisis and Resolution: the Center and the East
Chapter 5. Europe and the World
Chapter 6. The Age of Reason
PART II: An Age of Hope and Revolution (1715-1789)
Chapter 7. The People, the Land, and the State
Chapter 8. The Enlightenment
Chapter 9. The Ancien Régime Triumphant (1715-1763)
Chapter 10. The Decline and Fall of the Ancien Régime
Bibliography
Sources
Index