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Title: Europe in the Seventeenth Century (2nd Edition) by D. H. Pennington ISBN: 0-582-49388-9 Publisher: Pearson Education UK Pub. Date: July, 1989 Format: Textbook Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $52.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Good Introductory History
Comment: Pennington's second edition to this work in the Longman "General History of Europe" series was certainly worth the effort. Pennington gives a good treatment of the sources for what we know about seventeenth-century Europe, the society, the economy, religion, science, governments, and political history, with the latter surely being most extensive in this work.
However, the fact that the book is slightly biased towards political history should not too surprising, for the book is a general history, but also because the seventeenth century was one of statecraft (e.g., Jean-Baptiste Colbert under Louis XIV in France, the Great Elector Frederick William of Brandenburg-Prussia, Peter the Great of Russia, etc.) as well as copious wars. In noting the state, Pennington traces some states that began their ascendency during this period (e.g., Brandenburg-Prussia, Russia, etc.) as well as states that had reached the apex of their power and began (sometimes slowly) to decline (e.g., the Ottoman Empire, Habsburg Austria, Spain, etc.). France is probably afforded a slightly more extensive treatment than the other states. This is understandable considering the importance of France as a "great power" in this period, but also because it reflects the (often) deeper professional scholarship that has been done in French history.
This work is one of the better general histories for this period and has a rather extensive bibliography for those interested in further study of the seventeenth history in Europe. It is a great introduction to the period for the student of the period and is often used as one of the texts for undergraduate history courses on the seventeenth history.
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Title: Political Writings by John Locke, David Wooton, David Wootton ISBN: 0451628616 Publisher: Mentor Books Pub. Date: August, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Europe in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centures (2nd Edition) by Denys Hay ISBN: 0582491797 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1989 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The Old World and the New : 1492-1650 by J. H. Elliott ISBN: 0521427096 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 31 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Selected Letters (Penguin Classics) by Madame De Sevigne, Marie de Sevigne, Leonard W. Tancock, Marie De Rabutin-Chan Sevigne ISBN: 014044405X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: December, 1982 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Europe in the Sixteenth Century (A General History of Europe) by George L. Mosse, G. Q. Bowler, H. G. Koenigsberger ISBN: 0582493900 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: September, 1989 List Price(USD): $52.00 |
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