Europe: Privilege and Protest

This book is an updated and revised edition of a classic introduction to one of the key periods in modern European history. Olwen Hufton not only illuminates the complex and significant events of the first era in which modernity is recognisable but provides the essential background to the revolutionary period that followed.

Author's Note. Introduction. Part I: Traditional Structures and the Forces of Change. 1. Social and Economic Development. 2. The World of Privilege. 3. The World of Ideas. 4. Armies, Interests and Conflicts. Part II: Central and Eastern Europe. 5. The Holy Roman Empire. 6. The Habsburg Lands. 7. Prussia. 8. Russia. Part III: The Western World. 9. Vanished Supremacies: The Iberian Peninsula. 10. The United Provinces. 11. France of the Old Regime. 12. The Old Order Changeth. Conclusion. Select Bibliography. Index.