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Europe Divided: 1559 - 1598 (Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe)
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Europe Divided: 1559 - 1598 (Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe) Hardcover - 2000

by Elliott, John H

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  • Title Europe Divided: 1559 - 1598 (Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe)
  • Author Elliott, John H
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 2nd Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Somerset, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000-06-08
  • Features Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0631217797.G
  • ISBN 9780631217794 / 0631217797
  • Weight 1.36 lbs (0.62 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.75 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.91 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 16th Century
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
    • Cultural Region: Western Europe
  • Library of Congress subjects Europe - History - 1517-1648
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99056236
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.23

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From the rear cover

Europe Divided is a fascinating and wide-ranging introduction to a complex age of movement and conflict. Professor Elliott's strong narrative takes account of political, economic and social developments and provides vivid portraits of the leading personalities of the era.

The book examines the hard lines of division in late sixteenth-century Europe: between a Protestant North and a Catholic South; between the rich, expanding economy of the West and the harsh poverty of the agrarian East. It was the period that saw the birth of the Dutch Republic; the defeat of the Spanish Armada; the western repulse of the Ottoman Empire; the revival of the papacy and an authoritarian Calvinism. It was also an era of strong political personalities, of Philip II and a powerful Habsburg Spain, of Queen Elizabeth and Catherine de Medici, of Henry IV and Montaigne.

Throughout the text, Professor Elliott has been concerned to reveal the complex interaction of events in different parts of the continent, rather than examining regions in isolation. The book therefore conveys the feeling of contemporaries of the era - that they were involved in a great European drama.

About the author

John H. Elliott has lectured at the University of Cambridge, was Professor of history at King's College, London and at Princeton and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University. His previous publications include The Revolt of the Catalans (1963), Imperial Spain 1469-1716 (1963), The Old World the New 1492-1650 (1970), Richelieu and Olivares (1984) and Spain and Its World 1500-1700 (1989). Most recently he has edited, with Laurence Brockliss, The World of the Favourite (1999), and he is currently engaged on a comparative study of British and Spanish colonization in the Americas.