Table of Contents

Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction: Sad Stories of the Death of Kings; Part 1 ca. 1600–1660; Chapter 2 The European World in 1600; Chapter 3 A Society of Localities; Chapter 4 The Mental Universe; Chapter 5 Politics or Religion? The Thirty Years’ War; Chapter 6 Who Should Rule in England?; Part 2 ca. 1660–1720; Chapter 7 Louis XIV and Absolute Monarchy; Chapter 8 The Arts in the Age of the Baroque; Chapter 9 Trade, War, and Monarchy in the Seventeenth Century; Chapter 10 Europe Overseas; Chapter 11 The Pursuit of Truth; Part 3 ca. 1730–1790; Chapter 12 Public Sphere and Private Lives; Chapter 13 Enlightenment: Reason, Nature, and Progress; Chapter 14 Enlightenment in National Context; Chapter 15 Enlightened Absolutism; Chapter 16 A Consumer Society; Part 4 ca. 1790–1815; Chapter 17 The Reform of France; Chapter 18 Turns of Fortune’s Wheel: France, 1789–1795; Chapter 19 Napoleon and the Export of the French Revolution;

About the Author

Lisa Rosner is currently Professor of History at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. Her previous books include Medical Education in the Age of Improvement: Edinburgh Students and Apprentices 1760–1826 (1991) and The Most Beautiful Man in Existence: The Scandalous Life of Alexander Lesassier (1999).
John Theibault has taught at the University of Oregon, Princeton University, and Loyola College of Maryland. He is the author of German Villages in Crisis: Rural Life in Hesse-Kassel and the Thirty Years’ War, 1580–1720 (1995).