Description
Book SynopsisThis volume offers an introduction to a period characterized by diversity and vitality alongside war, plague, revolution and famine. The history of Europe between 1648 and 1688, often associated with the Age of the Baroque, was in fact disturbed by more cross-currents than almost any other period.
Trade Review"A well-written, sure, compact narrative which does ample justice to every significant aspect of late seventeenth-century Europe."
Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsList of Maps.
Preface.
1. A New Stability at the Centre.
2. The Crises of Eastern Europe.
3. The Eclipse of France.
4. The Survival of Spain.
5. The Standstill of the North.
6. The Minor Experiments in Autocracy.
7. The Major Experiment: France.
8. The European Mind, 1640-70.
9. The Diplomacy and Warfare of Louis XIV, 1660-80.
10. The Ottoman Empire and its Impact on Europe, 1672-88.
11. The Uneasy Calm of Western Europe, 1678-88.
12. Epilogue: The Interlock of 1688.
The Ruling Dynasties.
Further Reading.
Index.
