Research Catalog

Title

Eighteenth-century Europe : tradition and progress, 1715-1789 / Isser Woloch, Gregory S. Brown.

Author

Woloch, Isser, 1937-

Publication

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Brown, Gregory S. (Gregory Stephen)

Description

xiv, 362 p. : ill., maps; 21 cm.

Summary

Updated to account for advances in historical practices in the twenty-four years since its original publication, this comprehensive survey of the history of eighteenth-century Europe provides students at all levels with a concise overview of events, historical figures, and the cultural history of this important transitional period. The material is divided into sections thematically, with discussion of government and political culture, war, diplomacy and international competition, the social order, demographic and economic changes, poverty and public order, the Enlightenment, changes in the public sphere, churches and religion, and the era of revolutionary democracy. Numerous black and white illustrations are provided throughout. Woloch is professor emeritus of history at Columbia University and Brown is a professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Series Statement

Norton history of modern Europe

Uniform Title

Norton history of modern Europe

Subject

• 1648-1815
• Enlightenment > Europe
• Europe > Civilization > 18th century
• Europe > History > 1648-1789
• Europe > History > 1789-1815
• Europe > Intellectual life > 18th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-344) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ch. 1 Government and Political Culture -- Concepts Of Statecraft: Monarchies And Empires -- State Power And Absolutist Monarchies -- Absolutism and the French State -- The Rise of Brandenburg-Prussia -- The Habsburg Monarchy -- Russia -- Southern Europe -- States In Decline And Transition -- Northern Europe: The Decline of Sweden and Poland -- The Ottoman Empire -- British Politics And Government -- British Politics at the Accession of George III -- The British State and Public Finance -- Conclusion -- ch. 2 Warfare, Diplomacy, and International Competition -- War And Peace In Eighteenth-Century Europe: Relations Among States -- The Peace of Utrecht -- King George's Wars -- The Great War for Empire: The Seven Years War -- The First Partition of Poland and Eastern European Rivalries -- The Culture and Practice of Diplomacy -- Military, State, And Society In Eighteenth-Century Europe -- Military Life -- Strategy, Tactics, and Technology -- ch. 3 The Social Order -- Rural Society -- Lords and Serfs in Eastern and Central Europe -- Seigneurs and Peasants in Western Europe -- Rural Communities -- Agrarian Reform: Failure of an Era -- An Age Of Aristocracy -- The Spectrum of Noble Elites -- The English Upper Class: Aristocracy and Gentry -- The Nobility and the State -- Urban Society -- Urban Elites -- The Worlds of Work -- ch. 4 Demographic and Economic Change -- Population Growth -- Historical Demography -- The Death Rate -- Health and Nutrition -- Marriage Patterns and Birthrates -- The Beginnings of Contraception -- Economic Growth -- Sustained Growth -- Money and Credit -- The Global Economy -- The Atlantic Slave Trade and Plantation Slavery -- The Beginnings Of Structural Change In England -- The Agricultural Revolution -- The Beginnings of Industrialization -- ch. 5 Poverty and Public Order -- The Struggle Against Poverty -- The Family Economy -- From Poverty to Indigence -- The Indigent and the State on the Continent -- The English Poor Laws -- Unwanted Children -- Crime And Punishment -- Judicial Mechanisms -- Torture and Punishment -- Criminality -- Poaching and the Game Laws -- Rights and Riots -- ch. 6 The Enlightenment -- The Philosophes And The Enlightenment As A Movement -- The Encyclopedie and Enlightenment Thought -- The Encyclopedie: Publication and Resistance -- Enlightenment Themes: Reason, Nature, And Religion -- Deism and Empiricism -- The Enlightenment and the Wider World -- The Moral Basis of Enlightenment Political Theory: Montesquieu -- The Enemy of Infamy: Voltaire -- Rousseau: Morality, Nature, and Sentiment -- Women, Gender, and Morality -- Mary Wollstonecraft and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman -- Economic Man -- Economic Theory: Luxury and Commerce -- Physiocracy and Laissez Faire -- Adam Smith: The Social Value of Labor -- Other Enlightenments -- Materialism: Radical or Utilitarian Enlightenment? -- Idealism: The German Enlightenment -- ch. 7 Living the Enlightenment: The Public Sphere -- The Ideal Of Public And Forms Of Public Space -- Salons, Literary Gatherings, and Coffee Houses -- Scientific and Literary Academies -- Enlightenment Science and Colonial Society -- Secondary and Higher Educational Institutions -- Legal and Medical Education: The Persistence of Tradition -- Freemasonry -- Varieties Of Cultural Expression -- Public Theater and Theater Publics -- The Transformation of Playwriting -- Art and Music -- Popular Culture -- The Uses Of Print: Diffusion And Resistance -- Literacy, Religion, and Primary Education -- A Reading Revolution? -- Authorship -- Printing and the Book Trade in England and France -- The Public Sphere and Repression Elsewhere in Europe -- Conclusion -- ch. 8 Churches and Religious Life -- Religious Diversity, Toleration, And Intolerance -- The Catholic Church In Eighteenth-Century Europe -- The Gallican Church: Catholicism in France -- Challenges to the Gallican Church in France -- Catholic Popular Piety -- Protestantism In Revival -- Pietism in Prussia -- Pietism in the Habsburg Empire -- English Methodism -- Popular Intolerance in England -- Female Pietists and Methodists -- Judaism And Islam In Eighteenth-Century Europe -- Judaism -- Image and Reality of Islam -- Religious Belief, Reform, And The Abolition Of The Slave Trade -- ch. 9 Toward an Age of Democratic Revolution? -- Cracks In The Old Order -- The Second Partition of Poland -- The Pugachev Rebellion in Russia -- The Patriot Revolution in the Netherlands -- The Turn To Democratic Revolution -- Crowds and Reformers in England -- Colonial Rebellion in America -- The Coming Of The French Revolution, 1774-1789 -- Social Tensions -- Cultural Origins of the French Revolution -- The Failure of Reform -- The Pre-Revolution, 1787-1789 -- Popular Unrest and the Convergence of Revolutions.

ISBN

• 9780393929874 (pbk.)
• 0393929876 (pbk.)

LCCN

• ^^2011006760
• 40021728384

OCLC

• 702941912
• SCSB-10940769

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library