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050 00 D203|b.W54 2013 
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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.