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The New Cambridge Modern History

The New Cambridge Modern History

The New Cambridge Modern History

Volume 8: The American and French Revolutions, 1763–93
Elliot H. Goodwin
September 1976
8. The American and French Revolutions, 1763–93
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    This volume of the The New Cambridge Modern History looks specifically at the American and French Revolutions in the eighteenth century.

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    September 1976
    Paperback
    9780521291088
    772 pages
    1.06kg
    Unavailable - out of print June 1996

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Introductory survey A. Goodwin
    • 2. Population, commerce and economic ideas John Habakkuk
    • 3. Literature and thought: the Romantic tendency, Rousseau, Kant W. Stark
    • 4. Music, art and architecture F. W. Sternfeld and Peter Murray
    • 5. Science and technology D. McKie
    • 6. Educational ideas, practice and institutions A. V. Judges
    • 7. Armed forces and the art of war Christopher Lloyd and J. R. Western
    • 8. European relations with Asia and Africa Kenneth Ballhatchet and J. D. Hargreaves
    • 9. European diplomatic relations, 1763–90 M. S. Anderson
    • 10. The Habsburg possessions and Germany E. Wangermann
    • 11. Russia I. Young
    • 12. The partitions of Poland L. R. Lewitter
    • 13. The Iberian states and the Italian States, 1763–93 J. Lynch and J. M. Roberts
    • 14. The development of the American communities outside British rule R. A. Humphries
    • 15. Social and psychological foundations of the revolutionary era R. R. Palmer
    • 16. American independence in its constitutional aspects Max Beloff
    • 17. American independence in its imperial, strategic and diplomatic aspects M. A. Jones
    • 18. American independence in its American context: social and political aspects: western expansion Esmond Wright
    • 19. The beginnings of reform in Great Britain: imperial problems: politics and administration, economic growth W. R. Ward
    • 20. French administration and public finance in their European setting J. F. Bosher
    • 21. The breakdown of the old régime in France D. Dakin
    • 22. The historiography of the French revolution J. McManners
    • 23. The outbreak of the French Revolution G. E. Rudé
    • 24. Reform and revolution in France: October 1789–February 1793 A. Goodwin
    • Appendix. Estimated growth of population in Europe and North America in the eighteenth century
    • Index.
      Contributors
    • A. Goodwin, John Habakkuk, W. Stark, F. W. Sternfeld, Peter Murray, D. McKie, A. V. Judges, Christopher Lloyd, J. R. Western, Kenneth Ballhatchet, J. D. Hargreaves, M. S. Anderson, E. Wangermann, I. Young, L. R. Lewitter, J. Lynch, J. M. Roberts, R. A. Humphries, R. R. Palmer, Max Beloff, M. A. Jones, Esmond Wright, W. R. Ward, J. F. Bosher, D. Dakin, J. McManners, G. E. Rudé

    • Editor
    • Elliot H. Goodwin