Originally published in 1949, and as a third revised edition in 1966, this is a fascinating, lucid and comprehensive survey of the complicated succession of colonial empires in east and west.
Originally published in 1949, and as a third revised edition in 1966, this is a fascinating, lucid and comprehensive survey of the complicated succession of colonial empires in east and west. The book begins with an analysis of the scientific knowledge and technical limitations of trade, exploration and discovery in the age of the Renaissance. It describes in turn the Portuguese and Spanish discoveries, the organization of their empires for trade and government, the attempts of the Northern Europeans to penetrate through America or find markets and sources of supply in it, and the struggle of the Dutch with their rivals in the East and of the English with their rivals in the West.
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Original Review of Europe and a Wider World:
The economic mysteries are lucidly explained, the human drama never forgotten. The Economist
'A summary in less than two hundred pages of the exploratory and colonial periods of Westenr Europe written by so expert a scholar, is something to be grateful for.' C. M. Woodhouse, The Spectator
1.Europe at the End of the Fifteenth Century
2. The Italian Wars The
First Phase
3. France, Spain, and the House of Habsburg
4. The Reformation in
Germany
5. The Italian Wars The Second Phase
6. The Development of
Lutheranism in Germany
7. The End of the War Between France and Spain; The
Abdication o Charles V; Navarre and Savoy
8. Turkey and Christendom in the
Sixteenth Century
9. The Spread of Protestantism
10. The Counter-Reformation;
The Council of Trent; The Jesuits; The Inquisition
11. The Scandinavian
Kingdoms, and the Spread of Lutheranism Outside of Germany
12. A Note on
Russian History in the Sixteenth Century
13. The Old World and the New
14.
The Origin of the French Wars of Religion
15. The First Phase of the French
Wars of Religion
16. Spain and the Netherlands Under Philip II
17. The
European Crisis and the Massacre of saint Bartholomews Day
18. France and
the Netherlands From the Massacre to the Deaths of the Duke of Alençon and
William the Silent
19. A Decision Reached in Western Europe: Spain, France,
and the Netherlands to 1598
20. Settlement of France Under Henry IV
21. The
End of the Century: Germany, France and Spain
22. Changes and Tendencies in
the Sixteenth Century.
J. H. Parry (19141982) was Professor of Oceanic History at Harvard University.
