Europe in the Eighteenth Century: Aristocracy and the Bourgeois Challenge - Softcover

Rude, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674269217 ISBN 13: 9780674269217

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1985

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

George Rude was a distinguished historian and renowned expert on 18th-century history. He taught at universities all over the world and held many distinguished academic posts. In retirement he lived in Sussex until his death in 1992.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0674269217
• ISBN 13: 9780674269217
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292