Europe Unfolding : 1648-1688 Paperback - 2001 - 2nd Edition
by Stoye, John
- Used
Description
Details
- Title Europe Unfolding : 1648-1688
- Author Stoye, John
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 2nd
- Edition 2
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, Williston, Vermont, U.S.A.
- Date 2001-01-09
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # GRP97210617
- ISBN 9780631213871 / 0631213872
- Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 9.01 x 5.97 x 0.98 in (22.89 x 15.16 x 2.49 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 17th Century
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Cultural Region: Western Europe
- Library of Congress subjects Europe - History - 1648-1715
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00031020
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.252
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From the rear cover
The history of Europe between 1648 and 1688, often associated mostly with Louis XIV or the Age of the Baroque, was in fact disturbed by more cross-currents than at almost any other period. Disturbances, conflicts and uprisings along the remote frontiers, in Poland, in the Ukraine, in the Carpathians and in South-Eastern Europe, had repercussions in Vienna, Paris, Stockholm, and The Hague, affecting diplomacy across the world. Yet, at the same time, Europe was home to Newton and Huygens, Velzquez and Rembrandt, Pascal and Bossuet, Bernini and Racine. The diversity and vitality of European science and culture was all the more astonishing for the incessant ravages of war, plague and famine.
The period which opens with a lull after the Thirty Years War and closes with another period of calm before the Wars of English and Spanish Succession, witnessed the flowering of Dutch prosperity, the rise of Muscovy, and the slow decline of Turkey and Venice. Almost everywhere the institution of monarchy, shaken at the outset, was by 1688 more strongly entrenched than ever.
