Early Modern Europe from about 1450 to about 1720

USED BOOK. MAY CONTAIN MARK-UP

By Sir George Clark

FROM THE JACKET: “In this book (originally written for The Europear Inheritance) Sir George Clark tells the story of European civilization, western and eastern, in the period which followed the Middle Ages. Beginning about 1453, when the Turks captured Constantinople, be- fore America was discovered or Martin Luther born, it ends in the early eighteenth century, when Peter the Great was founding St. Peters- burg, when Sir Isaac Newton was a very old man, when steam-engines were already in use, but before any- one foresaw the French Revolution. Touching many aspects of civiliza- tion, economic, social, political, mili- tary, naval, religious and intellectual, it presents the history of the period as a record of endeavour and achievement. It is neither, on the one hand, a mere summary of facts and dates, nor, on the other, a mere essay in interpretation…”

London. Oxford University Press. 1957. 273p.