Europe 1600-1789 Book

	List of Maps
	Preface
Pt. I	The End of an Era
1	The European World of the Seventeenth Century	3
2	The First European War	39
3	The Origins of the Modern State: The Absolutist Route	71
4	The Origins of the Modern State: Alternative Routes	91
Pt. II	The Emergence of the Great Powers
5	Towards 'Absolutism': Variations round a Theme	119
6	The Evolution of the British State: A Different Model	142
7	Developments on the North-Eastern Periphery	156
8	The Second European War, 1660-1721	192
Pt. III	The End of the Old Regime
9	Changing Mentalities	207
10	Change in the Economy and Society	219
11	Social Change	228
12	A New Search for Political Stability	243
13	The Stabilization of the North-Eastern Borderlands	258
14	The European Power Game, 1715-1740	264
15	The Last European War of the Ancien Regime, 1740-1763	270
16	The Enlightenment	287
17	Enlightened Despotism: The Enlightenment in Action	294
18	The Big Three and Scandinavia	307
19	Alternative Models	339
20	The French Time Bomb	358
	Conclusion: Europe in 1789	373
	Endnotes	375
	Chronology	391
	Genealogies	401
	Bibliography	407
	Index	421