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Eighteenth-century Europe: tradition and progress, 1715-1789
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W.W. Norton & Co
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[2012]
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Machine generated contents note: 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
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