{"product_id":"europe-in-crisis-isbn-9780631220282","title":"Europe in Crisis","description":"In the new edition of this classic book, Geoffrey Parker draws on material from all over Europe to provide an authoritative and exciting account of the eventful first half of the seventeenth century.  List of Figures. \u003cp\u003eList of Maps.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Tables.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface to the Second Edition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNote on Conventions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrelude: Prague Spring.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. European Society and the Economy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClimate and Crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRich and Poor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSupply and Demand.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Economy on the Edge of Crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. European Society and the State.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Theory of Absolutism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReligious Absolutism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolitical Absolutism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe State and War.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. The Times of Troubles in the East, 1593-1618.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Austrian Habsburgs and the Turks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Vasas and their Enemies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rape of Russia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Armed Neutrality in the West, 1598-1618.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Recovery of France.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Netherlands Divided.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpain under Philip III.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. The Apogee of Habsburg Imperialism, 1618-1629.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bohemian Revolt.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYears of Victory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRise and Fall of a Coalition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrance and the Cold War for Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. The Defeat of the Habsburgs, 1629-1635.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSweden and Poland.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGustavus Adolphus and Wallenstein.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Cardinal-Infante.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. War and Revolution, 1635-1648.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the Edge of Disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Crisis of the Spanish Monarchy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrance Resurgent.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe End of the Eighty Years' War.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe End of the Thirty Years' War.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. The Culture of Post-Renaissance Europe.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWar and Culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Culture of Everyday Life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElite Culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Geoffrey Parker's book is characteristically lucid, lively and vigorous. In its updated form it makes the best introduction to the period I know.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Burke FBA,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eProfessor of Cultural History, University of Cambridge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is no ordinary textbook, but one that can be read and enjoyed again and again. Thanks to the breadth of the author's knowledge of the primary and secondary material, even scholars of the period will continually find new nuggets of information and fresh insights to set them thinking.\"\u003cbr\u003e --\u003cb\u003eLaurence Brockliss,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eMagdalen College, Oxford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This textbook is witty, lively and provocative. Unlike so many anglophone historians, Professor Parker thinks Moscow and Mecklenburg are as interesting as Madrid or Marseilles: this is a genuinely European history of Europe.\"\u003cbr\u003e --\u003cb\u003eRobert Frost,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eKing's College, London\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The 2001 version of \u003ci\u003eEurope in Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e is much more than the 1979 [edition] with a few additions or amendments: the text has been revised thoroughly and comprehensively, many passages in the 2001 bear little resemblance to their predecessors, and the presentation and style of the book are emphatically 'new millennium' rather than '1970s'... Students and other reders who came to the period 1598-1648 through \u003ci\u003eEurope in Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e will find the new edition equally instructive, enjoyable, enlightening and essential; it thoroughly deserves the appellation of 'Modern Classic' and will long remain a standard text.\" (\u003ci\u003eReviews in History\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eThe new edition [is] equally instructive, enjoyable, enlightening and essential; it thoroughly deserves the appellation of 'modern classic' and will long remain a standard text\"\u003cbr\u003e --\u003cb\u003eDavid J Sturdy\u003c\/b\u003e (\u003ci\u003eReviews in History,\u003c\/i\u003e Sept 2002)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeoffrey Parker\u003c\/b\u003e is Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History at Ohio State University. He previously taught at Yale University (1993-96) and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was department chair from 1989 to 1991. He also taught at the Universities of Cambridge and St Andrews in Britain and at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in Canada. His many books include \u003ci\u003eThe Military Revolution. Military innovation and the rise of the West, 1500-1800\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), the winner of two book prizes, \u003ci\u003ePhilip II\u003c\/i\u003e (1978), now in its third edition, \u003ci\u003eThe Grand Strategy of Philip II\u003c\/i\u003e (1998) \u003ci\u003eThe Dutch Revolt\u003c\/i\u003e (revised edition, 1984), and \u003ci\u003eThe Thirty Years' War\u003c\/i\u003e (revised edition, 1997).\u003c\/p\u003e  In the new edition of this classic book, Geoffrey Parker draws on material from all over Europe to provide an authoritative and exciting account of the eventful first half of the seventeenth century. The continent enjoyed scarcely a year of peace during this period. Instead revolution, civil war and complex international conflicts brought many states to the edge of collapse in the 1640s.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eProfessor Parker examines three crucial conflicts: the desperate struggle of the Habsburgs with France and the Dutch Republic; the rivalry of Sweden, Denmark, Russia and Poland for control of the Baltic, and the confrontation between the Austrian Habsburgs and their subjects which escalated into the Thirty Years' War. He also illuminates the leading social, economic and intellectual developments of the period.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe new edition has been revised throughout and includes an updated bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989170471141,"sku":"NP9780631220282","price":58.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631220282.jpg?v=1761783075","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/europe-in-crisis-isbn-9780631220282","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}