The New Cambridge Modern History

doi:10.1017/CHOL9780521045452

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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Frontmatter
pp i-xx
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CHAPTER I - INTRODUCTORY SUMMARY
pp 1-26
- By J. O. Lindsay, Fellow of Girton College and Lecturer in History in the University of Cambridge
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CHAPTER II - THE GROWTH OF OVERSEAS COMMERCE AND EUROPEAN MANUFACTURE
pp 27-49
- By C. H. Wilson, Fellow of Jesus College and Reader in Modern Economic History in the University of Cambridge
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CHAPTER III - THE SOCIAL CLASSES AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE STATES
pp 50-65
- By J. O. Lindsay
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CHAPTER IV - THE VISUAL ARTS AND IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE
pp 66-84
- By Sir Albert Richardson, Royal Academy
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CHAPTER V - THE ENLIGHTENMENT
pp 85-112
- By A. Cobban, University College, London
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CHAPTER VI - RELIGION
pp 113-140
- By R. W. Greaves, University of London
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CHAPTER VII - MONARCHY AND ADMINISTRATION
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1. - European practice
pp 141-160
- By J. O. Lindsay
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2 - The English inspiration
pp 160-162
- By W. R. Brock, Fellow of Selwyn College and Lecturer in History in the University of Cambridge
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CHAPTER VIII - THE ARMED FORCES AND THE ART OF WAR
pp 163-190
- By Eric Robson, University of Manchester
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CHAPTER IX - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
pp 191-213
- By J. O. Lindsay
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CHAPTER X - THE DECLINE OF DIVINE-RIGHT MONARCHY IN FRANCE
pp 214-240
- By A. Cobban
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CHAPTER XI - ENGLAND
pp 241-268
- By W. R. Brock
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CHAPTER XII - THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN AND ITALY
pp 269-291
- By J. O. Lindsay
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CHAPTER XIII - THE ORGANISATION AND RISE OF PRUSSIA
pp 292-317
- By W. H. Bruford, Fellow of St John’s College and Professor of German in the University of Cambridge
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CHAPTER XIV - RUSSIA
pp 318-338
- By Ian Young, University of Cambridge
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CHAPTER XV - SCANDINAVIA AND THE BALTIC
pp 339-364
- By R. M. Hatton, London School of Economics
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CHAPTER XVI - POLAND UNDER THE SAXON KINGS
pp 365-390
- By L. R. Lewitter, Fellow of Christ’s College and Lecturer in Slavonic Studies (Polish) in the University of Cambridge
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CHAPTER XVII - THE HABSBURG DOMINIONS
pp 391-415
- By C. A. Macartney, All Souls, Oxford
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CHAPTER XVIII - THE WAR OF THE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION
pp 416-439
- By Mark A. Thomson, University of London
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CHAPTER XIX - THE DIPLOMATIC REVOLUTION
pp 440-464
- By D. B. Horn, University of Edinburgh
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CHAPTER XX - THE SEVEN YEARS WAR
pp 465-486
- By Eric Robson
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CHAPTER XXI - THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN COMMUNITIES
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1 - Latin America
pp 487-500
- By J. H. Parry, University College of Swansea
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2 - North America
pp 500-513
- By Frank Thistlethwaite, University of East Anglia
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CHAPTER XXII - RIVALRIES IN AMERICA
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1 - The Caribbean
pp 514-528
- By J. H. Parry
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2 - The North American continent
pp 528-540
- By Frank Thistlethwaite
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CHAPTER XXIII - RIVALRIES IN INDIA
pp 541-565
- By C. C. Davies, University of Oxford
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