Covering European history from the invention of the printing press to the French Revolution, this accessible and engaging textbook offers an innovative account of people's lives, from a variety of backgrounds, in the early modern period and within the global context of European developments. Six central topics - individuals in society, politics and power, cultural and intellectual life, religion, economics and technology - are explored in two chronological sections, 1450-1600 and 1600-1789. The text takes in Europe in its entirety, eastward to the Ottoman Empire, northward to Sweden, and southward to Portugal, includes European colonies overseas, and integrates religious, ethnic, gender, class, and regional differences. Students are encouraged to think about continuities as well as changes across this formative period and throughout the text, maps, illustrations, timelines, and textboxes of original sources and featured topics illuminate the narrative. Online resources include primary source material, music examples and regularly updated bibliographies.
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"Wiesner-Hank's approach is heavily conditioned by social history and splendidly integrates the non-European world and Europe's colonial interests. [...] Libraries will want to add this erudite volume, which is much more than a textbook, to their collections." -- Choice
"Wiesner-Hanks has succeeded in writing an engaging synthesis of the 'new picture' of the early modern period at the survey level. It is up to date and impressive in its breadth of coverage, and will be useful for anyone with a general interest in the period, especially those interested in gender and social history" -Dwight E.R. Ten Huisen, H-German
"As an introductory survey of European history from the invention of the printing press to the French Revolution, it admirably synthesizes an immense array of disparate themes and approaches while maintaining reader attention... Throughout, Wiesner's style is engaging and intentionally accessible to the current generation of students." -Dwight E.R. Ten Huisen, H-German
"Wiesner-Hanks has succeeded in writing an engaging synthesis of the 'new picture' of the early modern period at the survey level. It is up to date and impressive in its breadth of coverage, and will be useful for anyone with a general interest in the period, especially those interested in gender and social history" -Dwight E.R. Ten Huisen, H-German
"As an introductory survey of European history from the invention of the printing press to the French Revolution, it admirably synthesizes an immense array of disparate themes and approaches while maintaining reader attention... Throughout, Wiesner's style is engaging and intentionally accessible to the current generation of students." -Dwight E.R. Ten Huisen, H-German
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Covering European history from the printing press to the French Revolution, this accessible and engaging textbook offers an innovative account of people's lives in the early modern period. Throughout the text maps, illustrations, timelines, and textboxes illuminate the narrative, with online resources including further primary source material.
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Whether or not you are interested in this period, if you like to read history you will like this book. Well written and organized, comprehensive, and, as far as I can tell, objective. If Cambridge can cover the entire postclassical period with books of this quality, it will be providing a great service.
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