03853cam a2200421 a 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700800410003401000170007501500150009202000150010702000170012203500230013904000320016204200140019404300120020805000200022008200200024024501160026024600230037624600170039926000680041630000340048450400620051850521080058065100350268865100400272370000230276383000360278685600770282285600890289985601040298890600450309294200120313795501200314999900190326995201430328812237109BD-DhUL20170513182616.0001121s2000    enkb     b    001 0 eng d  a   00711763   aGB99-U5926  a0198731817  a0198731205    a(OCoLC)ocm43032011  aUKMcUKMdTXAdDLCdBD-DhUL  alccopycat  ae------00aD286b.E39 200000a940.2532 bSHO04aThe eighteenth century : pThe short Oxford history of Europe.bEurope, 1688-1815 /cedited by T.C.W. Blanning.30aEighteenth century3 a18th century  aOxford [England] ;aNew York :bOxford University Press,c2000.  axii, 301 p. :bmaps ;c23 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [255]-259) index.8 aMachine generated contents note: X Politics and the state in eighteenth-century Europe -- Julian Swann -- European states: Monarchies, republics, and despotisms -- High politics -- Enlightened absolutism -- Corporate politics -- Representative politics -- Politics and the people -- Radicals and republicans -- Conclusion -- 2 Orders and classes: eighteenth-century society -- under pressure -- Christof Dipper -- The stages of demographic expansion -- The dissolution of the society of orders -- estate-owners -- tenants -- peasants -- rural labours -- industrial workers -- high finance -- lews -- Poverty and poor relief -- Social forces making for continuity -- the nobility -- townspeople -- The image of society -- 3 The European economy in the eighteenth century -- Sheilagh Ogilvie -- Agriculture -- Industry -- Trade -- 4 Religion and culture -- Derek Beales -- Religion, to mid-century -- Culture before the middle of the century -- Religion, enlightenment, and culture from mid-century to 1789 -- Epilogue: the French Revolution -- 5 International rivalry and warfare -- John A. Lynn -- The old regime, 1700-1789 -- the international system -- the military system -- the practice of war -- the war of the Spanish Succession -- the war of the Austrian Succession -- the Seven Years War -- Revolution and Empire, 1789-1815 -- revolutionary change and international continuity, 1789-1802 -- war and partition, 1792-1795 -- Napoleon's military revolution, 1802-1812 -- the apogee of Napoleon, 1805-1807 -- the formation of the Concert of Europe -- 6 Europe and the rest of the world -- P. J. Marshall -- Europeans outside Europe -- empires in the Americas -- the crisis of the American empires -- Asian trade -- new empires in Asia -- European perspectives -- the benefits of expansion -- envisaging new worlds -- Conclusion: the French Revolution and beyond -- T C. W. Blanning -- Further Reading -- Chronology -- Maps -- Europe in 1715 -- Europe in 1789 -- Europe in 1815 -- Europeans in Asia in the eighteenth century -- Partitions of Poland -- The Americas in the eighteenth century -- Index. 0aEuropexHistoryy18th century. 0aEuropexCivilizationy18th century.1 aBlanning, T. C. W. 0aShort Oxford history of Europe.4 3Table of Contents onlyuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy02/00711763.html423Publisher descriptionuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0611/00711763-d.html423Contributor biographical informationuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0725/00711763-b.html  a7bcbcccopycatd2encipf20gy-gencatlg  2ddccBK  ato HLCD ps15 11-21-00; lg02 to subj 12-14-00; lg01 01-08-01; lg28 01-16-01 to DDC; aa19 01-23-2001alf27 2001-10-31  c195413d195413  00102ddc406940_253000000000000_SHO718REF9332533aDULbDULcAACd2017-05-13eGifto940.253 SHOp446219r2017-05-13t2w2017-05-13yBK