The New Cambridge Modern History
Volume 7. The Old Regime, 1713–1763
Part of The New Cambridge Modern History
- Editor: J. O. Lindsay
- Date Published: January 1957
- availability: Unavailable - out of print
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521045452
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This volume surveys the political, military and diplomatic history of a period of changing alliances and limited and gentlemanly but frequent wars. It gives particular weight to the emergence of Prussia and Russia as European Powers and to the rivalry of France and England in America, in India and on the high seas. The economic background to these national fortunes is of increasing international trade, technological progress and colonialisation. Socially, European society slowly evolved from the domination of the aristocracy to that of urban populations and bourgeois administrators. Intellectually, the culture of Europe took on what are recognized as specifically eighteenth-century forms and ideals. From the point of view of world history this period saw the confirmation of European pre-eminence and dominion.
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- Date Published: January 1957
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521045452
- length: 646 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 160 x 50 mm
- weight: 1.165kg
- availability: Unavailable - out of print
Table of Contents
1. Introductory summary J. O. Lindsay
2. The growth of overseas commerce and European manufacture Charles Wilson
3. The social classes and the foundations of the States J. O. Lindsay
4. The visual arts and imaginative literature Sir Albert Richardson
5. The Enlightenment A. Cobban
6. Religion R. W. Greaves
7. Monarchy and administration J. O. Lindsay and W. R. Brock
8. The armed forces and the art of war Eric Robson
9. International relations J. O. Lindsay
10. The decline of Divine-Right monarchy in France A. Cobban
11. England W. R. Brock
12. The western Mediterranean and Italy J. O. Lindsay
13. The organisation and rise of Prussia W. H. Bruford
14. Russia Ian Young
15. Scandinavia and the Baltic M. Hatton
16. Poland under the Saxon kings L. R. Lewitter
17. The Habsburg dominions C. A. Macartney
18. The War of the Austrian Succession M. A. Thomson
19. The diplomatic revolution D. B. Horn
20. The Seven Years War Eric Robson
21. The development of the American communities: (1) Latin America J. H. Parry
(2) North America Frank Thistlethwaite
22. Rivalries in America: (1) The Caribbean J. H. Parry
(2) North America Frank Thistlethwaite
23. Rivalries in India C. C. Davies
24. Economic Relations in Africa and the Far East: (1) Africa J. Gallagher
(2) Asia Victor Purcell.
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