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001 2009027982
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050 00 $aD228$b.M485 2010
082 00 $a940.2/1$222
100 1 $aMerriman, John M.
245 12 $aA history of modern Europe :$bfrom the Renaissance to the present /$cJohn Merriman.
250 $a3rd ed.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton,$cc2010.
300 $axxx, 1239, A-102 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aMedieval legacies and transforming discoveries -- The Renaissance -- The two reformations -- The wars of religion -- The rise of the Atlantic economy : Spain and England -- England and the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century -- The age of absolutism, 1650-1720 -- The new philosophy of science -- Enlightened thought and the republic of letters -- Eighteenth-century economic and social change -- Eighteenth-century dynastic rivalries and politics -- The French revolution -- Napoleon and Europe -- The industrial revolution -- Liberal challenges to Restoration Europe -- The revolutions of 1848 -- The era of national unification -- The dominant powers in the age of liberalism : parliamentary Britain, Tsarist Russia, and Republican France -- Rapid industrialization and its challenges, 1870-1914 -- Political and cultural responses to a rapidly changing world -- The age of European imperialism -- The Great War -- Revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union -- The elusive search for stability in the 1920s -- The Europe of economic depression and dictatorship -- World War II -- Rebuilding divided Europe -- The Cold War and the end of European empires -- Transitions to democracy and the collapse of communism -- Global challenges : "fortress Europe," European cooperation, and the uncertainties of a new age.
651 0 $aEurope$xHistory$y1492-