The age of expansion : Europe and the world, 1559-1660 /
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McGraw-Hill
[1968]
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Table of Contents:
- I. Introduction: the Baroque century, by Hugh Trevor-Roper. Expansion and contraction ; Watersheds ; Unity - by accident and by force ; The Calvinist diaspora ; Battlefields of the mind ; The search for utopia
- II. Spain's dominion: Problems and policies of a world power, by Henry Kamen. Culture and conquest ; The prudent king ; The shadow of defeat ; America's silver ; Government by pen and ink ; The black legend ; The most barbarous stroke ; The peso in trouble
- III. The divided Netherlands: Rebellion, liberty and nationhood, by Charles Wilson. A land of towns ; The sea beggars ; Groping towards government ; A match in Spain ; Entrepot of the Western world ; Art, the mirror ; Revolt or civil war? ; A republic of merchants
- IV. Peace in central Europe: The empire before 1618, by Claus-Peter Clasen. The riven empire ; Facts and figures ; A fruitful land ; Commercial interests ; Inside the Protestant states ; Catholic renewal ; Minorities and madness ; Teaching, learning and reading ; Burghers at home
- V. Thirty Years' War: The European civil war , by H. G. Koenigsberger. The Bohemian revolt ; Spain's role ; 'A Calvinist International' ; The rise of Wallenstein ; France intervenes ; The lion of the north ; The first all-European war ; Peacemakers ; The cost counted
- VI. France: monarchy and people : From Henri III to Louis XIV, by Menna Prestwich. 'The monstrous history of our times' ; Henri IV: all things to all men ; The young Richelieu ; 'To check the advance of Spanish power' ; The economy at breaking-point ; The volcano erupts ; Free thought and prudence
- VII. Britain transformed: Crown, conscience and commonwealth, by G. E. Aylmer. The balance of forces ; Men round the throne ; Parties and power ; Ireland: repression and rebellion ; Scotland, the neglected kingdom ; Deadlock ; Cromwell and the Independents ; 'This mortal god' - the state
- VIII. Slav nations: Poland and the evolution of Russia, by Henry Willetts. The multi-nation of Zygmunt August ; A choice of kings ; War on three fronts ; The shadow of partition ; 'The execution of the laws' ; Russia: strength and weakness ; The Tsar the Boyars and the church
- IX. Empires of Islam: Muslim India, Persia and Turkey, by Peter Avery. Islam: unity and division ; Roots of Jahangir's India ; Art and tyranny ; 'The purple or a bloody grave' ; Steps to the Safavid throne ; Ottoman supremacy ; The victorious Turk ; The long decline
- X. The Oriental world: Ming China and the unification of Japan, by Ivan Morris and Hans Bielenstein. An ordered state ; The 'eight-legged' essay ; The Son of Heaven ; Anarchy in the island kingdom ; 'He who made everyone tremble' ; The end of Ming ; The hierarchy of feudal Japan ; The 'Christian century'.