An edition of The Eighteenth Century
(2000)
The short Oxford history of Europe.
Europe, 1688-1815
by T. C. W. Blanning
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Table of Contents
Machine 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.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-259) index.
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