HIS 3310: Early Modern World: Books

Early Modern Europe provides a comprehensive introduction to Europe during the Early Modern period, exploring the changes and transitions involved in the move towards modernity. Chapters cover social, political, economic, and cultural perspectives, all contributing to a full and vibrant picture of Europe during this time.

This opening volume of a three-part history of the family in Europe examines the material conditions of family life, housing, diet and domestic organisation, and the economic and social factors that influenced its development.

Defining the Enlightenment as the "long eighteenth century," the Encyclopedia focuses on the entire range of philosophic and social changes engendered by the Enlightenment. It extends the conventional geographical boundaries of the Enlightenment, covering not only France, England, Scotland, the Low Countries, Italy, English-speaking North America, the German states, and Hapsburg Austria but also Iberian, Ibero-American, Jewish, Russian, and Eastern European cultures.

In addition to showcasing traditional facts of national leadership and state power, the Encyclopedia embraces social and cultural developments, non-European history, women's history, religion, health, economics, technology, and other vital but less often reported aspects of the human drama. Here is a chronicle not only of major political events but of ordinary people, covering shifts in the relationships between men and women, developments in leisure, and demographic currents.

This detailed set explores European history from 1450-1789, from the print revolution to the French Revolution. The set covers major topics in art, government and education as well as providing biographical entries on key figures of the period. In addition, the set covers topics specific to the era, such as apocalypticism, guilds, food riots, royal mistresses and lovers, the Spanish inquisition, Utopia and others.

Warfare on three continents, empire building, and revolution--political, agricultural, and industrial--dominate 18th-century world history. This unique resource offers detailed description and expert analysis of the 18th century's most important events: Peter the Great's Reform of Russia; the War of the Spanish Succession; the First British Empire; the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War; the Enlightenment; the Agricultural Revolution; the American Revolution; the Industrial Revolution; the Slave Trade; and the French Revolution.

This volume covers Europe from the fall of Constantinople in 1453 to the treaty of Paris in 1763. Embracing all the major aspects of European political, social, economic and cultural history during the period, it reflects the enormous changes that transformed Europe over three centuries. Key themes include the Reformation, Imperial Spain, the Revolt of the Netherlands, the Thirty Years War and the Enlightenment, with a detailed examination of European expansion overseas.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation is a unique compendium of contemporary scholarship focusing on the complete range of religious and social changes wrought by the Reformation-- including not only issues of church polity and theology but also related developments in politics, economics, demographics, art, and literature.

Early Modern Catholicism makes available in modern spelling and punctuation substantial Catholic contributions to literature, history, political thought, devotion, and theology in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

Until recently, study of the early modern economy in Europe has tended to have heroes and villains, the former being the progressive and "modern" economies of the Netherlands and England, and the latter being doomed, backward and Catholic Italy and Spain. This picture has now changed quite drastically, and there is far more emphasis on the general growth of the European economy during this period. This book provides the most up-to-date research and thorough discussion of how the progressiveremoval of the neighboring threats to European prosperity created an environment which benefited all societies.

This volume offers a sense of the richness and the complexity of early modern thinking about the human eye. The seven case studies explore the relationship between vision and knowledge, asking how eyes were construed as instruments of witnessing, perception, representation, cognition, and religious belief.

A collection of essays charting the developments in military practice and warfare across the world in the early modern and modern periods.

Women, Religion and Education in Early Modern England is a study of the nature and extent of the education of women in the context of both Protestant and Catholic ideological debates. Examining the role of women both as recipients and agents of religious instruction, the author assesses the nature of power endowed in women through religious education, and the restraints and freedoms this brought.