LEADER 00000cam a2200409 i 4500 001 17478879 005 20151027150039.0 008 120928r20132006enkab 001 0 eng 010 2012037578 020 9781107031067 (hardback) 020 9781107643574 (paperback) 040 DLC|beng|cDLC|erda 042 pcc 043 e------ 050 00 D203|b.W54 2013 082 00 940.2/2|223 100 1 Wiesner, Merry E.,|d1952-|eauthor. 245 10 Early modern Europe, 1450-1789 /|cMerry E. Wiesner-Hanks. 250 Second edition. 264 1 Cambridge :|bCambridge University Press,|c2013. 300 xv, 546 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c26 cm. 336 text|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|2rdamedia 338 volume|2rdacarrier 490 0 Cambridge history of Europe ;|vvolume 2 500 Includes index. 500 First published in 2006. 520 "The title of this book, and perhaps also of the course for which you are reading it, is Early Modern Europe. The dates in the title inform you about the chronological span covered (1450-1789), but they do not explain the designation "early modern." That term was developed by historians seeking to refine an intellectual model first devised during this very period, when scholars divided European history into three parts: ancient (to the end of the Roman Empire in the west in the fifth century), medieval (from the fifth century to the fifteenth), and modern (from the fifteenth century to their own time). In this model, the break between the Middle Ages and the modern era was marked by the first voyage of Columbus (1492) and the beginning of the Protestant Reformation (1517), though some scholars, especially those who focused on Italy, set the break somewhat earlier with the Italian Renaissance. This three-part periodization became extremely influential, and as the modern era grew longer and longer, historians began to divide it into "early modern" - from the Renaissance or Columbus to the French Revolution in 1789 - and what we might call "truly modern" - from the French Revolution to whenever they happened to be writing"--|cProvided by publisher. 650 7 HISTORY / Europe / General|2bisacsh. 651 0 Europe|xHistory|y1492-1648. 651 0 Europe|xHistory|y1648-1789. 651 0 Europe|xCivilization.
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