Cooper J.P. The New Cambridge Modern History, Vol. 4: The Decline of Spain and the Thirty Years War 1609-48

Cambridge University Press, 2010. - 344 p. Unlike most existing textbooks on the economic history of modern Europe, which offer a country-by-country approach, The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe rethinks Europe's economic history since 1700 as unified and pan-European, with the material organised by topic rather than by country. This first volume is centred on the transition to modern economic growth, which first occurred in Britain...

Cambridge University Press, 2010. - 486 p. Unlike most existing textbooks on the economic history of modern Europe, which offer a country-by-country approach, The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe rethinks Europe's economic history since 1700 as unified and pan-European, with the material organised by topic rather than by country. This second volume tracks Europe's economic history through three major phases since 1870. The first phase...

Cambridge University Press, 1980. - 368 pр. Table of Contents Frontmatter Introduction: concepts of continuity and change in history by Peter Burke The environment and the economy by Eric L. Jones Industry by William N. Parker Population by Jacques Dup?quier Peasants by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie Bureaucracy by G. E. Aylmer Warfare by Geoffrey Parker Revolution by Victor G. Kierman The scientific revolutions by Peter M. Heimann Social t...

Cambridge University Press, 1961. - 591 pр. Table of Contents Frontmatter Introduction: The Age of Louis XIV by F. L. Carsten Economic problems and policies by D. C Coleman The scientific movement by A. R. Hall Philosophy by W. von Leyden Political thought by Stephan Skalweit Church and state by Anne Whiteman Art and architecture by R. Wittkower The social foundations of states by Sir George Clark French diplomacy and foreign policy i...

Cambridge University Press, 1990. - 694 pр. This is the second, amended and enlarged edition of a familiar standard work, first published in 1958. Like its predecessor, it describes the open conflicts of the Reformation from Luther's first challenge to the uneasy peace of the 1560s. Reforming movements in all the principal countries are discussed against the background of constitutional development and the political struggles of the ruling dynas...

Cambridge University Press, 2010. - 588 pp. Volume Two of The Cambridge History of the Cold War examines the developments that made the Cold War into a long-lasting international system during the 1960s and 1970s. Leading scholars explain how the Cold War seemed to stabilize after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and how this sense of increased stability developed into the detente era of the early 1970s. They also outline how conflicts in the Th...

Cambridge University Press, 1957. - 646 pр. 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,...

Cambridge University Press, 1957. - 568 pр. Table of Contents Frontmatter Preface to the Paperback Edition by Denys Hay General Introduction: History and the Modern Historian by Sir George Clark Introduction by Denys Hay The face of Europe on the eve of the great discoveries by H. C. Darby Fifteenth-century civilisation and the Renaissance by Hans Baron The Papacy and the Catholic Church by R. Aubenas Learning and education in Western E...

Cambridge University Press, 1977. - 750 p. Table of Contents: Frontmatter The Historical Study of Economic Growth and Decline in Early Modern History by C. H. Wilson Agriculture in the Vital Revolution by B. H. Slicher van Bath The European Fisheries in Early Modern History by A. R. Michell The Changing Patterns of Trade by Kristof Glamann Monetary, Credit and Banking Systems by Herman van der Wee The Nature of Enterprise by Barry Supple The Or...

Cambridge University Press, 1968. - 576 pр. This volume examines the period of history which looks at counter-reformation and the price revolution, 1559-1610. Table of Contents Frontmatter Introduction by R. B. Wernham The economy of Europe 1559–1609 by F. C. Spooner The Papacy, Catholic reform, and Christian missions by T. M. Parker Protestantism and confessional strife: Lutheranism after Luther by T. M. Parker Protestantism and confess...