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Beschreibung
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.
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.
Über den Autor
THOMAS MUNCK is Reader in History at the University of Glasgow, UK.
Zusammenfassung
Sheds important new light on the early modern state and the limitations of absolute monarchy
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.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781403936196
ISBN-10: 1403936196
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Munck, Thomas
Auflage: 2. Auflage
Hersteller: Bloomsbury 3PL
Macmillan Education
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Macmillan Education, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, productsafety@springernature.com
Maße: 216 x 140 x 31 mm
Von/Mit: Thomas Munck
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2005
Gewicht: 0,742 kg
Artikel-ID: 133617076

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