Anmerkungen:
Orig. publ. in 2001 under the title: The Longman handbook of early modern Europe, 1453-1763
Beschreibung:
Part I. Political History -- Heads of State -- Political Chronologies -- France -- Italy -- Netherlands -- Prussia -- Baltic -- Poland-Lithuania -- Russia -- Ottoman Empire -- Holy Roman Empire -- Austrian Monarchy -- Spain -- Portugal -- England -- Part II. Warfare and Diplomacy -- Military Revolution -- Major Wars and Rebellions -- Treaties and Alliances -- Part III. Religion -- Religious Life in Europe on the Eve of the Reformation -- Martin Luther and the Reformation -- Zwingli and the Reformation in Zurich -- Calvin and Geneva -- Reformation and Civil War in France -- Reformation and Revolt in the Netherlands -- Radical Reformation -- Reformation and Religious Change in Early Modern England -- Northern Reformation -- Catholic Church after 1517 -- Inquisition -- Jesuits -- Lutheranism from 1546 -- Expansion of Christianity Overseas -- Jews in Early Modern Europe -- Witchcraft in the Early Modern Period -- Part IV. Economy and Society -- Population, Urbanisation and Health -- Wages and Prices -- Trade, Commerce and Industry -- Atlantic Slave Trade -- Part V. Culture and Society -- Renaissance -- Enlightenment -- Enlightened Despotism to c. 1763 -- Science and Technology -- Part VI. Expansion of Europe -- Age of Reconnaissance -- Portuguese Seaborne Empire, 1450-1668 -- Spanish Seaborne Empire, 1492-1588 -- Dutch Seaborne Empire -- First British Empire -- French Empire (France Outremer) -- Portuguese and Spanish Empires: A Glossary of Places -- Main Territories under British Rule by 1763 -- Part VII. Biographies -- Part VIII. Glossary of Terms -- Part IX. Bibliography -- Genealogies