Efnisyfirlit

• Contents
• List of illustrations
• List of maps
• List of source boxes
• List of methods and analysis boxes
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Structure of the book
• Sources for early modern history
• Chapter summary
• Questions
• Further reading
• PART I
• 1 Europe in the world of 1450
• Travel beyond Europe
• Individuals in society
• Politics and power
• Cultural and intellectual life
• Religious institutions, ideas, and practices
• Economics and technology
• Chapter summary
• Questions
• Further reading
• 2 Individuals in society, 1450–1600
• The body
• The life cycle: childhood and youth
• The life cycle: sexuality
• The life cycle: marriage
• The life cycle: widowhood and old age
• The life cycle: death
• Family, kin, and community networks
• Chapter summary
• Questions
• Further reading
• 3 Politics and power, 1450–1600
• Military technology and organization
• Standing armies and navies
• Taxes, bureaucracies, and marital politics
• The British Isles
• France
• Spain and Portugal
• The Holy Roman Empire
• The Ottoman Empire
• Eastern and northern Europe
• Italy
• Power at the local level
• Chapter summary
• Questions
• Further reading
• 4 Cultural and intellectual life, 1450–1600
• Schools and education
• Political theory
• Humanism
• Vernacular literature and drama
• Music and art
• Chapter summary
• Questions
• Further reading
• 5 Religious reform and consolidation, 1450–1600
• The early Reformation
• The Reformation in England
• The radical Reformation
• Social change and the Reformation
• Religious wars
• Calvinism
• The Catholic Reformation
• Later religious wars
• Chapter summary
• Questions
• Further reading
• 6 Economics and technology, 1450–1600
• Capitalism, economic theory, and population growth
• Late medieval agriculture
• Rural developments in western Europe
• Neo-serfdom and slavery in eastern Europe
• Mining and metallurgy
• Cloth and commerce
• Banking and money-lending
• Urban life
• Poverty and crime
• Chapter summary
• Questions
• Further reading
• 7 Europe in the world, 1450–1600
• Indian Ocean connections
• Chinese and Portuguese voyages
• Columbus’s background and voyages
• Early voyagers after Columbus
• Europeans in Asia: merchants and missionaries
• Europeans in Africa: slavers and sugar growers
• Europeans in the Americas: conquerors and miners
• Global connections and the Columbian exchange
• Chapter summary
• Part summary, 1450–1600
• Questions
• Further reading
• PART I I
• 8 Individuals in society, 1600–1789
• The social body: orders and classes
• The writing body: letters and diaries
• The inner body: emotions and passions
• The studied body: anatomy and medical theory
• The treated body: medicine and public health
• The reproducing body: childbirth and contraception
• The deviant body: sex crimes and scandals
• Chapter summary
• Questions
• Further reading
• 9 Politics and power, 1600–1789
• Absolutism in theory and practice
• Warfare and alliances
• France
• Spain and Portugal
• The British Isles
• The Dutch Republic
• The Ottoman Empire
• Hapsburg lands
• Brandenburg-Prussia
• Sweden and Poland
• Russia
• Enlightened rulers
• Chapter summary
• Questions
• Further reading
• 10 Cultural and intellectual life, 1600–1789
• Learned societies, salons, and newspapers
• Ancient authorities and new methods in science
• The revolution in astronomy
• Mathematics, motion, and the mind of God
• Reason, knowledge, and property
• Natural rights and their limits in the Enlightenment
• Literature and drama
• Art and architecture
• Music
• Chapter summary
• Questions
• Further reading
• 11 Religious consolidation and renewal, 1600–1789
• Protestant state churches
• Church and state in Catholicism
• Spiritualism and pietism
• Moravians and Methodists
• Gender issues in western Christianity
• Eastern Orthodoxy
• Witchcraft
• Judaism
• Islam
• Chapter summary
• Questions
• Further reading
• 12 Economics and technology, 1600–1789
• Agricultural change and rural protests
• Population growth
• Proto-industry and manufactories
• Industry and the Industrial Revolution
• Commerce, banking, and money
• Chapter summary
• Questions
• Further reading
• 13 Europe in the world, 1600–1789
• Explorations
• Trade and colonies in the Indian Ocean
• Trade and colonies in the Caribbean
• Trade and colonies in the Atlantic
• Colonies, difference, and race
• The effects of colonialism
• Chapter summary
• Epilogue
• Questions
• Further reading
• Index