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This 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.

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"A well-written, sure, compact narrative which does ample justice to every significant aspect of late seventeenth-century Europe." Times Literary Supplement

Table of Contents
List 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.

Europe Unfolding

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      Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Published 3 November 2000
      ISBN-13 9780631213871
      978-0631213871
      ISBN-10 0631213872

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This 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 Supplement

      Table of Contents
      List 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.

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