LEADER 00000cam a2200289 a 4500 001 15806061 005 20100413140029.0 008 090707s2010 nyuab b 001 0 eng 010 2009027982 020 9780393934335 (pbk.) 020 0393934330 (pbk.) 035 (OCoLC)ocn320193499 040 DLC|cDLC|dYDX|dOKU|dDLC 043 e------ 050 00 D228|b.M485 2010 082 00 940.2/1|222 100 1 Merriman, John M. 245 12 A history of modern Europe :|bfrom the Renaissance to the present /|cJohn Merriman. 250 3rd ed. 260 New York :|bW.W. Norton,|cc2010. 300 xxx, 1239, A-102 p. :|bill., maps ;|c24 cm. 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Medieval 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 Europe|xHistory|y1492-
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