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The Old Regime 1713–63

Series The New Cambridge Modern History, Volume
7

Edited by J. O.
Lindsay

Publication Date 1996

Hardback ISBN-10 0521045452

Hardback ISBN-13 9780521045452

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1017/CHOL9780521045452

Overview

This volume surveys the political, military and diplomatic history of a
period of changing alliances and limited and gentlemanly but frequent wars. It
gives particular weight to the emergence of Prussia and Russia as European
Powers and to the rivalry of France and England in America, in India and on the
high seas. The economic background to these national fortunes is of increasing
international trade, technological progress and colonialisation. Socially,
European society slowly evolved from the domination of the aristocracy to that
of urban populations and bourgeois administrators. Intellectually, the culture
of Europe took on what are recognized as specifically eighteenth-century forms
and ideals. From the point of view of world history this period saw the
confirmation of European pre-eminence and dominion.

For more details of the
print book, and how to buy it online, please see The Old Regime 1713–63 in the
Cambridge University Press online catalogue.

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The
New Cambridge Modern History Vol. 7: The Old Regime 1713–63

Frontmatter

Introductory
summary by J. O.
Lindsay

The
growth of overseas commerce and European manufacture by
C.
H. Wilson

The
social classes and the foundations of the states by J. O.
Lindsay

The
visual arts and imaginative literature by Sir
Albert Richardson

The
Enlightenment by A. Cobban

Religion
by R. W.
Greaves

Monarchy
and administration: European practice by J. O.
Lindsay

Monarchy
and administration: the English inspiration by W. R.
Brock

The
armed forces and the art of war by Eric
Robson

International
relations by J. O.
Lindsay

The
decline of divine-right monarchy in France by A. Cobban

England
by W. R.
Brock

The
western Mediterranean and Italy by J. O.
Lindsay

The
organisation and rise of Prussia by W. H.
Bruford

Russia
by Ian
Young

Scandinavia
and the Baltic by R. M.
Hatton

Poland
under the Saxon Kings by L. R.
Lewitter

The
Habsburg Dominions by C. A.
Macartney

The
war of the Austrian succession by Mark A.
Thomson

The
diplomatic revolution by D. B. Horn

The
Seven Years War by Eric
Robson

The
development of the American communities: Latin America by
J.
H. Parry

The
development of the American communities: North America by
Frank
Thistlethwaite

Rivalries
in America: The Caribbean by J. H.
Parry

Rivalries
in America: The North American continent by Frank
Thistlethwaite

Rivalries
in India by C. C.
Davies

Economic
relations in Africa and the Far East: Africa by J.
Gallagher

Economic
relations in Africa and the Far East: Asia by Victor
Purcell

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