Munck Seventeenth-Century Europe

State, Conflict and Social Order in Europe 1598-1700
2. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-230-20972-5
Verlag: Macmillan Education
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 528 Seiten, Ebook (PDF)

Reihe: Macmillan History of Europe

This thematically organised text provides a compelling introduction and guide to the key problems and issues of this highly controversial century. Offering a genuinely comparative history, Thomas Munck adeptly balances Eastern and Southern Europe, Scandinavia, and the Ottoman Empire against the better-known history of France, the British Isles and Spain. Seventeenth-Century Europe- gives full prominence to the political context of the period, arguing that the Thirty Years War is vital to understanding the social and political developments of the early modern period- provides detailed coverage of the debates surrounding the 'general crisis', absolutism and the growth of the state, and the implications these had for townspeople, the peasantry and the poor - examines changes in economic orientation within Europe, as well as continuity and change in mental and cultural traditions at different social levels.Now fully revised, this second edition of a well-established and approachable synthesis features important new material on the Ottomans, Christian-Moslem contacts and on the role of women. The text has also been thoroughly updated to take account of recent research.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Munck, Thomas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chronology of Main Events 1598-1700.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Maps.- The Thirty Years War in the German Lands.- Government in Wartime Europe.- The Framework of Life.- Enterprise and Profit.- The Structure of Society: Nobility, Office-Holders and the Rich.- The Structure of Society: Urban Life.- Provincial Revolts, Civil Wars and Crises in Mid-century Europe.- The Structure of Society: Peasant and Seigneur.- Beliefs, Mentalités, Knowledge and the Printed Text.- The Arts, the Value of Creativity and the Cost of Appearances.- Absolute Monarchy and the Return of Order After 1660.- Power and State-Sponsored Violence in the Later Seventeenth Century.- Conclusions.- Notes.- Further Reading.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

THOMAS MUNCK is Reader in History at the University of Glasgow, UK. His publications include The Peasantry and the Early Absolute Monarchy in Denmark, 1660-1708 (1979) and The Enlightenment: A Comparative Social History, 1721-1794 (2000), and a range of articles on early modern Denmark, literacy in Europe, and related issues.