The New Cambridge Modern History: Volume 7, The Old Regime, 1713-1763
The New Cambridge Modern History: Volume 7, The Old Regime, 1713-1763

Author: J. O. Lindsay

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1957

Total Pages: 654

ISBN-13: 9780521045452

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This volume surveys the political, military and diplomatic history of a period of changing alliances and limited and gentlemanly but frequent wars. It gives particular weight to the emergence of Prussia and Russia as European Powers and to the rivalry of France and England in America, in India and on the high seas. The economic background to these national fortunes is of increasing international trade, technological progress and colonialisation. Socially, European society slowly evolved from the domination of the aristocracy to that of urban populations and bourgeois administrators. Intellectually, the culture of Europe took on what are recognized as specifically eighteenth-century forms and ideals. From the point of view of world history this period saw the confirmation of European pre-eminence and dominion.

The New Cambridge Modern History: Volume 1, The Renaissance, 1493-1520
The New Cambridge Modern History: Volume 1, The Renaissance, 1493-1520

Author: G. R. Potter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1957-01-01

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 9780521045414

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In a preface written for the paperback edition, Professor Hay examines some of the changes in Renaissance scholarship since the first publication of this volume in 1957. Successive chapters examine the social and economic structure of a continent about to establish trade and colonies in the New World, the intellectual and artistic movements which made up the Renaissance, the position of the Church on the eve of the Reformation, the political inheritance of the Middle Ages, with its rising nation states, and the growth of the Ottoman Empire.

The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 7, c.1415-c.1500
The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 7, c.1415-c.1500

Author: Christopher Allmand

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-05-21

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781107460768

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This seventh volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History covers the last century (interpreted broadly) of the traditional Western Middle Ages. It takes account of much new research and modern, interdisciplinary approaches to the study and writing of history to present a broad view of late medieval society across Europe. It deals with ideas about government, social and economic change and development, the world of the spirit, as well as the history of individual countries, in many of which the powers of central government were greatly extended.