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The New Cambridge Modern History: The Old Regime, 1713-1763

By J. O. Lindsay

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1957
ISBN
0521045452, 9780521045452
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
44 MB (46007348 bytes)
Volume
Vol. 7
Pages
612\612
Topic
History
Library
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Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46
Исторические дисциплины;История стран Европы и Аме

Description

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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