Seventeenth-Century Europe

This is a fully-revised edition of a well-established synthesis of the period from the Thirty Years War to the consolidation of absolute monarchy and the landowning society of the ancient régime. Thematically organized the book covers all of Europe from Britain and Scandinavia to Spain and Eastern Europe. Important new material has been added on the Ottomans on Christian-Muslem contacts and on the role of women and the text has been thoroughly updated to take account of recent research.