A classic in its field, loved by instructors and students for its narrative flair, humor, authority, and comprehensive coverage. More than 100,000 copies sold! Available in both one-volume and two-volume paperback editions, A History of Modern Europe pres
【作者简介】
John Merriman is the Charles Seymour Professor of History at Yale University. A specialist in nineteenth century French history, Merriman earned his Ph. D at the University of Michigan. He is the author of many books, including The Margins of City Life: Explorations on the French Urban Frontier, 1815–1851; Red City: Limoges and the French Nineteenth Century; The Agony of the Republic: The Repression of the Left in Revolutionary France, 1848–1851; and, most recently, The Stones of Balazuc: A French Village in Time (Norton, 2002). He regularly teaches the survey of modern European history at Yale.
【目录】
List of Maps Preface Ch. 1Medieval Legacies and Transforming Discoveries3 Ch. 2The Renaissance47 Ch. 3The Two Reformations87 Ch. 4The Wars of Religion138 Ch. 5The Rise of the Atlantic Economy: Spain and England181 Ch. 6England and the Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century232 Ch. 7The Age of Absolutism, 1650-1720274 Ch. 8The New Philosophy of Science327 Ch. 9Eighteenth-Century Economic and Social Change354 Ch. 10Enlightened Thought and the Republic of Letters399 Ch. 11Eighteenth-Century Dynastic Rivalries and Politics442 Ch. 12The French Revolution495 Ch. 13Napoleon and Europe548 Ch. 14Challenges to Restoration Europe587 Ch. 15The Middle Classes in the Age of Liberalism638 Ch. 16The Industrial Revolution, 1800-1850669 Ch. 17The Revolutions of 1848715 Ch. 18The Era of National Unification753 Ch. 19The Dominant Powers in the Age of Liberalism: Britain, France, and Russia787 Ch. 20Rapid Industrialization and Its Challenges, 1870-1914844 Ch. 21Mass Politics and Nationalism902 Ch. 22The Age of European Imperialism959 Ch. 23The Origins of the Great War1003 Ch. 24The Great War1039 Ch. 25Revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union1085 Ch. 26The Elusive Search for Stability in the 1920s1139 Ch. 27The Europe of Depression and Dictatorship1186 Ch. 28World War II1239 Ch. 29Rebuilding Divide Europe1291 Ch. 30The Emergence of Contemporary Europe and the Collapse of Communism1351 Further Readings1411 Credits1433 Index1447
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