Europe 1450‐1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World Available to Purchase

The term “Early Modern”, the period linking the Middle Ages with the Modern Age, has been used only relatively recently by historians. It seems to confer an impression of unity on this time as if developments happened in a steady and purposeful manner. In fact this was a period of great upheaval, with massive social and economic change, with wars and destruction on a huge scale and geographical expansion for Europe in the form of exploration and imperial conquest. In the preface the editor‐in‐chief Jonathan Dewald declares the work aims to offer “an accessible account of this complicated, crucial phase...