Europe in the 18th Century: Aristocracy and the Bourgeois Challenge (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780674269217)

Europe in the Eighteenth Century is a social history of Europe in all its aspects: economic, political, diplomatic military, colonial-expansionist. Crisply and succinctly written, it describes Europe not through a history of individual countries, but in a common context during the three quarters of a century between the death of Louis XIV and the industrial revolution in England and the social and political revolution in France. It presents the development of government, institutions, cities, economies, wars, and the circulation of ideas in terms of social pressures and needs, and stresses growth, interrelationships, and conflict of social classes as agents of historical change, paying particular attention to the role of popular, as well as upper- and middle-class, protest as a factor in that change.

Author: George Rude
ISBN-10: 0674269217
ISBN-13: 9780674269217
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1985
Pages: 292
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.20h x 5.97w x 0.94d