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| Introduction : interpreting early modern Europe | 1 | |
| 1 | The legacy of Rome | 18 |
| 2 | Europe and the Atlantic slave systems | 32 |
| 3 | History, myth and historical identity | 41 |
| 4 | The Theresian School reform of 1774 | 55 |
| 5 | The evil empire? : the debate on Turkish despotism in eighteenth-century French political culture | 69 |
| 6 | Ira Dei Super Nos | 90 |
| 7 | The charitable activities of confraternities | 101 |
| 8 | The sins of belief : a village remedy for hoof and mouth disease (1796) | 121 |
| 9 | "Dutiful love and natural affection" : parent-child relationships in the early modern Netherlands | 138 |
| 10 | A possible support for irreligion : the sciences | 160 |
| 11 | The material culture of the church and incipient consumerism | 172 |
| 12 | From a culture of science toward the Enlightenment | 186 |
| 13 | Contesting possession | 197 |
| 14 | Ritual and print discipline and invention : the Fete in France from the Middle Ages to the revolution | 207 |
| 15 | Political, economic, and legal structures | 222 |
| 16 | Women before the bench : female litigants in early modern Normandy | 241 |
| 17 | Review of the family, sex and marriage in England 1500-1800, by Lawrence Stone | 258 |
| 18 | Illegitimacy and infanticide in early modern Russia | 268 |
| 19 | Public leisure and the rise of salons | 282 |
| 20 | The crisis in assumptions about political thinking | 305 |
| 21 | From contractual monarchy to constitutionalism | 317 |
| 22 | The paradoxes of state power | 332 |
| 23 | The power of the king | 348 |
| 24 | The royal government, guilds, and the seamstresses of Paris, Normandy, and Provence | 362 |
| 25 | The courtization of the warriors | 385 |
| 26 | Women on top | 398 |
| 27 | The contrasts | 412 |
| 28 | Transcending east-west dichotomies : state and culture formation in six ostensibly disparate areas | 419 |
| 29 | Introduction to the great divergence, China, Europe, and the making of the modern world economy | 430 |
| 30 | Between carnival and lent : the scientific revolution at the margins of culture | 443 |
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Andrew Pulliam
reviewed Early Modern Europe on January 14, 2014
Early Modern Europe
I've had this on the back of the toilet for a few months--great bathroom reading, I dare say. Sections are broken into small, two to seven page chunks, making this a great bit of porcelain prose.
But, on a lighter note, Roberts does the unthinkable: he condenses three thousand years of European history into a single, accurate, informative tome with a wonderfully readable prose. As a primer for European history, this book is at the top of the class and, moreover, for those who are more intimately familiar with history, it is in no way a tedious read. Neither too surfactory nor too pedantic, Roberts provides a compelling and accessible book on an important part of world history.
And it really is good toilet-reading material. Though, that should not cast aspersions on its merits.
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