BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 EUROPEAN ECONOMY AND SOCIETY, C. 1500-1648 -- THE ECONOMIC BACKGROUND -- DEMOGRAPHICS -- TRADE AND THE "ATLANTIC REVOLUTION" -- PRICES AND INFLATION -- LANDLORDS AND PEASANTS -- PROTOINDUSTRIALIZATION -- GROWTH OF BANKING AND FINANCE -- POLITICAL AND CULTURAL INFLUENCES ON THE ECONOMY -- ASPECTS OF EARLY MODERN SOCIETY -- CHAPTER 2 EUROPEAN POLITICS AND DIPLOMACY, C. 1500-1648 -- THE STATE OF EUROPEAN POLITICS -- DISCOVERY OF THE NEW WORLD -- NATION-STATES AND DYNASTIC RIVALRIES -- TURKEY AND EASTERN EUROPE -- REFORMATION AND COUNTER-REFORMATION -- DIPLOMACY IN THE AGE OF THE REFORMATION -- THE WARS OF RELIGION -- CHAPTER 3 THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR, 1618-48 -- THE CRISIS IN GERMANY -- THE CRISIS IN THE HABSBURG LANDS -- THE TRIUMPH OF THE CATHOLICS, 1619-29 -- THE CRISIS OF THE WAR, 1629-35 -- THE EUROPEAN WAR IN GERMANY, 1635-45 -- MAKING PEACE, 1645-48 -- PROBLEMS NOT SOLVED BY THE WAR -- PROBLEMS SOLVED BY THE WAR -- CHAPTER 4 EUROPEAN SOCIETY AND ECONOMY, C. 1648-1788 -- THE HUMAN CONDITION -- CLIMATE -- WAR -- HEALTH AND SICKNESS -- POVERTY -- THE ORGANIZATION OF SOCIETY -- NOBLES AND GENTLEMEN -- THE BOURGEOISIE -- THE PEASANTRY -- THE ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT -- EARLY CAPITALISM -- THE OLD INDUSTRIAL ORDER -- CHAPTER 5 THE RISE OF ABSOLUTISM -- MAJOR FORMS OF ABSOLUTISM -- FRANCE -- THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE -- PRUSSIA -- VARIATIONS ON THE ABSOLUTIST THEME -- SWEDEN -- DENMARK -- SPAIN -- PORTUGAL -- GREAT BRITAIN -- NETHERLANDS -- RUSSIA -- CHAPTER 6 THE ENLIGHTENMENT -- SOURCES OF ENLIGHTENMENT THOUGHT -- THE ROLE OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS -- THE INFLUENCE OF LOCKE -- THE PROTO-ENLIGHTENMENT -- HISTORY AND SOCIAL THOUGHT -- THE LANGUAGE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT -- THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY -- THE ENCYCLOPÉDIE -- ROUSSEAU AND HIS FOLLOWERS -- THE ENLIGHTENMENT IN GERMANY.

THE ENLIGHTENMENT THROUGHOUT EUROPE -- CONCLUSION -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.