A History of Europe, 1500-1815
Author : James Edward Gillespie
Publisher :
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 47,73 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Europe
ISBN :
Author : James Edward Gillespie
Publisher :
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 47,73 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Europe
ISBN :
Author : Carlton Hayes
Publisher : Ozymandias Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 36,77 MB
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1531266991
Five hundred years ago a European could search in vain the map of "the world" for America, or Australia, or the Pacific Ocean. Experienced mariners, and even learned geographers, were quite unaware that beyond the Western Sea lay two great continents peopled by red men; of Africa they knew only the northern coast; and in respect of Asia a thousand absurd tales passed current. The unexplored waste of waters that constituted the Atlantic Ocean was, to many ignorant Europeans of the fifteenth century, a terrible region frequented by fierce and fantastic monsters. To the average European the countries surveyed in the preceding chapter, together with their Muslim neighbors across the Mediterranean, still comprised the entire known world.
Author : James Edward Gillespie
Publisher :
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 40,73 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Europe
ISBN :
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 26,28 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 185728173X
This is a history of warfare, wars and the armed forces of Europe from the military revolution of the mid-17th century to the Napoleonic wars.; This book is intended for broad-based undergrad courses on 18th century Europe/Britain and the Ancien Regime. 2nd and 3rd year thematic courses on warfare in the modern period, and students of war studies.
Author : Steven King
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 48,28 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1782381465
The issues around settlement, belonging, and poor relief have for too long been understood largely from the perspective of England and Wales. This volume offers a pan-European survey that encompasses Switzerland, Prussia, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Britain. It explores how the conception of belonging changed over time and space from the 1500s onwards, how communities dealt with the welfare expectations of an increasingly mobile population that migrated both within and between states, the welfare rights that were attached to those who “belonged,” and how ordinary people secured access to welfare resources. What emerged was a sophisticated European settlement system, which on the one hand structured itself to limit the claims of the poor, and yet on the other was peculiarly sensitive to their demands and negotiations.
Author : Herbert Harvey Rowen
Publisher : Bobbs-Merrill Company
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 13,33 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Europe
ISBN :
Author : H.G. Koenigsberger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,69 MB
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1317875893
Opening at the height of the Renaissance, the book chronicles the dawning of a new age on the European continent. Koenigsberger paints a detailed picture of the Reformation and its significance as increasingly powerful nations began to intrude on their subjects’ public and private lives. He gives account of the Counter-Reformation and the political and economic crisis that accompanied it, and an in-depth discussion of the age of Louis XIV and the balance of power in Europe. A full chapter addresses the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, and throughout attention is given to social, cultural and intellectual developments. The book concludes with a summary of the situation throughout Europe on the eve of the French Revolution, and the dramatic changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution and the beginnings of a consumer society.
Author : Philip T. Hoffman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 19,41 MB
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0691175845
The startling economic and political answers behind Europe's historical dominance Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional explanations—such as geography, epidemic disease, and the Industrial Revolution—fail to provide answers. Arguing instead for the pivotal role of economic and political history, Hoffman shows that if certain variables had been different, Europe would have been eclipsed, and another power could have become master of the world. Hoffman sheds light on the two millennia of economic, political, and historical changes that set European states on a distinctive path of development, military rivalry, and war. This resulted in astonishingly rapid growth in Europe's military sector, and produced an insurmountable lead in gunpowder technology. The consequences determined which states established colonial empires or ran the slave trade, and even which economies were the first to industrialize. Debunking traditional arguments, Why Did Europe Conquer the World? reveals the startling reasons behind Europe's historic global supremacy.
Author : Carlton Hayes
Publisher :
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 27,76 MB
Release : 2017-06-29
Category :
ISBN : 9781548479527
Before we can safely proceed with the story of European development during the past four hundred years, it is necessary to know what were the chief countries that existed at the beginning of our period and what were the distinctive political institutions of each.A glance at the map of Europe in 1500 will show numerous unfamiliar divisions and names, especially in the central and eastern portions. Only in the extreme west, along the Atlantic seaboard, will the eye detect geographical boundaries which resemble those of the present day. There, England, France, Spain, and Portugal have already taken form. In each one of these countries is a real nation, with a single monarch, and with a distinctive literary language. These four states are the national states of the sixteenth century. They attract our immediate attention...
Author : Henry Wilson Littlefield
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,52 MB
Release : 1931
Category : Europe
ISBN :